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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, pp.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.
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.).
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.
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.).