Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, maître in 1766.
The elegantly tapered legs ‘en fuseau’ of this chair are identical to those found in a set of seat furniture made by Jacob in 1790 for the ‘pavillon chinois’ of Princesse Kinsky (1729-1794), rue Saint-Dominique, Paris. The model derives from a design by the architect Charles Percier (d. 1838; co-author with Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (d. 1853) of Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801), who supplied patterns of seat furniture to Georges Jacob in the ‘Etruscan’ manner at the end of the Ancien Régime.
The elegantly tapered legs ‘en fuseau’ of this chair are identical to those found in a set of seat furniture made by Jacob in 1790 for the ‘pavillon chinois’ of Princesse Kinsky (1729-1794), rue Saint-Dominique, Paris. The model derives from a design by the architect Charles Percier (d. 1838; co-author with Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (d. 1853) of Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801), who supplied patterns of seat furniture to Georges Jacob in the ‘Etruscan’ manner at the end of the Ancien Régime.