Lot 268
268
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY SIDE-CHAIRS
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 261-275)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY SIDE-CHAIRS

BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY SIDE-CHAIRS
BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with a rosette-carved lyre-shaped back, flanked by stop-fluted column supports with ball finials, above a seat covered in a dusty pink patterned material, on stop-fluted tapering legs with toupie feet, each stamped 'G.IACOB'
35¾ in. (90.5 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
With Jacques Perrin, Paris, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765, supplied a suite of twenty closely related chairs à dossier lyre for the salle à manger of Marie-Antoinette at the Hameau, Trianon (ill. C. Baulez, Versailles, deux Siècles d'histoire de l'art, Paris, 2007, pp.233-4). A chair of this celebrated model is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIè Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 425, fig. A, whilst a pair of voyeuses by Jacob was supplied to Jean-Baptiste Tourteau de Septeuil, premier Valet de Chambre du Roi from 1779 to 1792, and sold Christie's Monaco, 18 June 1989, lot 188.

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