A closely related set of six chaises by Jacob were sold Sotheby's Monaco, 23 February 1986, lot 878; Another chaise with trellis back by Jacob is illustrated in J. Nicolai, L'Art Et La Manière Des Maîtres Ébénistes Français Au XVIIIe Siècle, 1976, p. 231, fig. Y. These elegant chaises conceived in the fashionable goût anglais of the 1770's clearly relate to contemporary English chair patterns. Thomas Sheraton illustrates chairs with trellis backs in The Cabinet-Maker And Upholstorer's Drawing-Book, 1793, pl. 25, while a set of chairs with very similar backs were supplied to the Bank of England in 1809 by David Bruce, illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., vol. 1, p.307, fig. 264.