Lot Essay
Designed in the Louis XVI antique style of the 1770s, known as 'à l'italienne', its volute-capped columnar arm-supports of banquette form feature on a related sofa bearing the brand of Georges Jacob (matre in 1765) (see: N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, vol. 1, Paris, 1987, fig. 493
The most celebrated example of this form features on the suite of furniture supplied by Jacob in 1787 for the chateau de Saint-Cloud (see: P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Française du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 146
The most celebrated example of this form features on the suite of furniture supplied by Jacob in 1787 for the chateau de Saint-Cloud (see: P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Française du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 146