POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775

Details

A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD AND CANED FAUTEUIL DE BUREAU
POSSIBLY BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775
With arched back in conforming molded leaf-tip carved frame with padded scroll arms above a revolving bowed seat carved with guilloche above a conforming seat rail carved with piastres, on circular tapering twist fluted legs headed by acanthus and ending in ball feet, upholstered in green and scarlet floral striped silk
34 ½ in. (87.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired from Steinitz, Paris.

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Lot Essay

A related fauteuil de bureau stamped by the menuisier Georges Jacob is in the Louvre (illustrated in C. Dreyfus, The Louvre Museum, French furniture, Paris, 1921, vol. II, fig. 40), whilst a further similar example attributed to Jacob was sold from the collection of Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent, Christie's House sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 192.

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