CIRCA 1775, EACH STAMPED G. JACOB AND L. DELANOIS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SMALL GILTWOOD CANAPES
Circa 1775, each stamped G. JACOB and L. DELANOIS
Each upholstered in shot pink silk, with rectangular padded back within a channelled frame carved with paterae blocks to the corners surmounted by stiff-leaf finials, with part-upholstered arms and beaded, scrolled terminals on acanthus supports, with loose cushion to the seat, raised on patera block capped turned and fluted tapering legs, slight differences in size, re-gilt
One 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide, the other 48 in. (122 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner from Harris and Son, London.

Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

Louis Delanois, maître in 1761.

A comparable full-size canapé is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 415, fig G.

No other furniture has been identified bearing the stamps of both Jacob and Delanois, but the presence of both stamps on the canapés under offer may be the result of sub-contracting by one master to the other, wherewith the former then stamped the pieces before delivering them to the client.

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