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Lot Essay
Little biographical detail is known about S. Jamar, a cabinet-maker who is recorded in Liverpool and London betwen 1818 and 1826. His nationality is not known, but in 1819 he claimed to be cabinet-maker to the King of Holland. His surviving works are known through his stamp and they are all in a distinctive French Empire style which suggests that he himself was French (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 478)
The dating of this chest to 1820 might seem surprising since it imitates a French style of almost 20 years earlier. However, Jamar himself is not known to have worked earlier than 1818 and a design for a very similar chest appeared in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of the Arts for October 1821, vol. XIII, pl. 21 (reproduced in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 142, pl. 15)
The dating of this chest to 1820 might seem surprising since it imitates a French style of almost 20 years earlier. However, Jamar himself is not known to have worked earlier than 1818 and a design for a very similar chest appeared in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of the Arts for October 1821, vol. XIII, pl. 21 (reproduced in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 142, pl. 15)