LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with oval back, padded arms and shaped seat upholstered in olive velvet, the rails carved with a flowerhead-filled chain with foliate reserves and with beaded edge, the arms with acanthus-wrapped terminals and acanthus and foliate-carved supports, the seat rail conformingly carved and with leaf-tip edge, on baluster turned acanthus-wrapped legs with rope-twisted capitals and leaf-wrapped sabots, each with a crowned paper label inscribed 'CC. P.' and numbered 'A. 1007 3' and 'A. 1007 1', the reverse of the back covered with foliate damask
40½ in. (103 cm.) high; 27¾ in. (71 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

With their delicate carving, these fauteuils relate to the oeuvre of the menuisier -or chair maker- Georges Jacob (1739-1814). Their decoration (including beads, acanthus, stylized leaves) are characteristic of the Louis XVI style.
These fauteuils especially relate to the ones fashioned by Georges Jacob to the Salon de la Reine in the château des Tuileries and to the one commissioned in 1787 to Jacob for the château de Saint-Cloud. The latter is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and is illustrated in M. Jarry, Le siège français, Fribourg, 1973, pl. 247. When commissioned, the price -444 livres- was huge because of the highly elaborate carving.

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