A PAIR OF RESTAURATION GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PRIEDIEU

BY FRANCOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB AND GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1825

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PRIEDIEU
BY FRANCOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB AND GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1825
EACH WITH PADDED TOPRAIL ABOVE A SHELF, AND OPEN BACK WITH X-FORM STILES, A PADDED SEAT, STRAIGHT SEATRAIL, ON MOLDED LEGS, ONE STENCILED IN BLACK INK '...ROYAL' AND EACH WITH STENCILED INVENTORY NUMBER 'B2495', AND EACH STAMPED 'IACOB' (2)

Provenance

(PROBABLY FOR ONE)ANONYMOUS SALE; CHRISTIE'S, NEW YORK, 24 MARCH 1994, LOT 287.

Lot Essay

THIS STAMP WAS EMPLOYED BY FRANçOIS-HONORé-GEORGES JACOB AND GEORGES JACOB BETWEEN 1813 AND 1825.

THE PARTIAL '...ROYAL' INSCRIPTION ON THESE PRIE-DIEUS INDICATES THEY WERE PROBABLY SUPPLIED TO THE DUC D'ORL©ANS, LATER KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE, FOR HIS PARIS RESIDENCE THE PALAIS ROYAL. ANOTHER PRIE DIEU FROM THE PALAIS ROYAL AND WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 'B 2493' WAS SOLD SOTHEBY'S, LONDON, 10 JUNE 1994, LOT 146.

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