Lot 233
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AN EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOL
AN EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOL

CIRCA 1804, POSSIBLY BY JACOB-DESMALTER

Details
AN EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOL
circa 1804, possibly by jacob-desmalter
With a padded seat covered in silk brocade and with X-frame supports, with faint inventory mark A:1986 (?), redecorated
24in. (61cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 7 December 1989, lot 76

Lot Essay

An almost identical stool, with double bellflowers around the roundels and covered with Beauvais tapestry, was made by Jacob-Desmalter and delivered to Malmaison, circa 1804, where it remains (S. Grandjean, Empire Furniture, Paris, 1966, pl. 5b).
François-Honoré-Georges, second son of Georges Jacob, executed vast commissions for Napoleon and both his Empresses. Another stool from the Malmaison set is now in the Museé de Tours (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebénistes Français du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 338)