POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CONSOLE
POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775
With a later peach-figured marble top above a frieze with entre-lac centered, on acanthus-carved volute supports with oak leaf and acorn garlands, joined by a stretcher with laurel leaf-wrapped urn finial, on lions paw feet, regilt
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide, 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2001, lot 49.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

With its foliate-carved voluted supports and shaped strecher surmounted by a Neo-Classical urn, this console table relates to a distinctive group delivered by Georges Jacob (maître in 1765) to Monsieur, the comte de Provence in 1785. Listed in the Inventory titled Mémoire des ouvrages faits pour le service du Garde-Meuble de Monsieur, frère du Roi sous les ordres de Monsieur de Bard par Jacob, Menuisier en meubles, rue Meslée, le 17 October 1785, these consoles are discussed in H. Lefuel, Georges Jacob Ebéniste du XVIIIème Siècle, Paris 1923, p. 200.

Jacob's contemporary Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (maître in 1769) is also known to have supplied consoles of this overall form, such as that sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 25 May 2000, lot 374 ($23,500) and thus an attribution is unjustifiable.

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