AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BERGERE by Jacob Frères, the moulded frame mounted with laurel leaves flanking paterae, the curved toprail and panelled back mounted on the reverse with martial trophies, including imperial eagles, with arm-supports in the form of winged female sphinxes, and drop-in seat covered in yellow-patterned silk, on panelled sabre legs filled with laurel leaves and mounted on the sides with paterae and anthemia, the seat stamped JACOB twice, and once JACOB FRERES R. MESLEE, and with Tuilleries brand, the chair rail stamped JACOB twice, JACOB FRERES R. MESLEE twice and twice with Tuilleries brand, old repairs to tops of legs, with label inscribed in ink 236 and label inscribed in ink VIII 210, the mounts on the reverse have been shifted slightly, various veneer patches

Sold on Behalf of the bankrupt estate of SIGURD HERLOFSEN

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BERGERE by Jacob Frères, the moulded frame mounted with laurel leaves flanking paterae, the curved toprail and panelled back mounted on the reverse with martial trophies, including imperial eagles, with arm-supports in the form of winged female sphinxes, and drop-in seat covered in yellow-patterned silk, on panelled sabre legs filled with laurel leaves and mounted on the sides with paterae and anthemia, the seat stamped JACOB twice, and once JACOB FRERES R. MESLEE, and with Tuilleries brand, the chair rail stamped JACOB twice, JACOB FRERES R. MESLEE twice and twice with Tuilleries brand, old repairs to tops of legs, with label inscribed in ink 236 and label inscribed in ink VIII 210, the mounts on the reverse have been shifted slightly, various veneer patches

Provenance

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Georges Jacob (1768-1803) and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob (1770-1841), Jacob Frères (1796-1803)

The Jacob Frères R. Meslée stamp is that employed by the partnership of Georges and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob between 1796-1803. The original Georges Jacob (1739-1814) handed over the running of the business to his two eldest sons in 1796. The death of his son Georges II in 1803 brough an end of Jacob Frères but the firm continued as Jacob-Desmalter under François-Honoré-Georges

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