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Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, maître 1765.
This sofa (canapé), with elegantly serpentined frame and volute-scrolled arms upholstered in bergère fashion and cradling a medallioned cushion, was executed by the maître menuisier Georges Jacob (d.1814). Venus' roses crown its arched cresting; while its hollowed and reed-banded frame is flowered at the centre and corners of the rail. A cabriolet armchair of this Louis XV pattern of the 1760s is illustrated in M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, Paris, 2002 (p. 8).
The canapé was almost certainly acquired by David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount Stormont (d. 1796), in the mid 1770s during his service as George III's ambassador to the court of Louis XVI.
This sofa (canapé), with elegantly serpentined frame and volute-scrolled arms upholstered in bergère fashion and cradling a medallioned cushion, was executed by the maître menuisier Georges Jacob (d.1814). Venus' roses crown its arched cresting; while its hollowed and reed-banded frame is flowered at the centre and corners of the rail. A cabriolet armchair of this Louis XV pattern of the 1760s is illustrated in M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, Paris, 2002 (p. 8).
The canapé was almost certainly acquired by David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount Stormont (d. 1796), in the mid 1770s during his service as George III's ambassador to the court of Louis XVI.