A LOUIS XVI BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE D'APPLIQUE

CIRCA 1780, REDUCED IN WIDTH, IN THE MANNER OF GEORGES JACOB

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A LOUIS XVI BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE D'APPLIQUE
Circa 1780, reduced in width, in the manner of Georges Jacob
The bowfronted white marble top over a conforming entrelac and rosette carved frieze with beaded edge, on acanthus-sheathed foliate-carved voluted supports and pinecone feet, with a white tag inscribed 7543/203, reduced in width, redecorated
26in. (66cm.) high, 23½in. (59.5cm.) wide, 16in. (41cm.) w

拍品专文

With its foliate-carved voluted supports, 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, pp.200.

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

A related console by Jacob, but of larger porportions (46in. wide) was sold from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 200, lot 8 (609,500 FFr.).

The exagerated chamfering to the frieze of this console is a constructional characteristic associated with Jacob.