ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB D. R. MESLÉE

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD TABOURETS
Attributed to Jacob D. R. Meslée
Each with rectangular padded seat covered in close-nailed blue velvet above a laurel-leaf apron flanked by floral patera within rectangular panels, on scrolled, spirally-fluted and acanthus-capped pieds en console, and on bun feet, one branded 'FON.' and with indistinct fleur de lys, with a small paper label inscribed '60./..', another inscribed 'F117/2', with one number painted in red '8335...2' and two in black 'F180' and 'F..5117'; the other with a number in black 'V 4022' and '363V' and further indistinct numbers, with small paper label inscribed '59/', the legs probably replaced, one stool 1/2 in. wider
16 in. (40.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (37 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (33.5 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

The château de Fontainebleau.
Probably sold from Fontainebleau in the sales of either 1881 or 1886.

Lot Essay

These tabourets are en suite with that stamped 'JACOB D.R. MESLÉE' and branded with the château de Fontainebleau inventory mark, which was sold in the Mauerbach sale, Christie's Vienna, 29-30 October 1996, lot 691. This stamp was employed by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob and Georges Jacob between 1803-13. The latter stool, numbered 'F4251', 'F8872' and '2F 1 05 16', was recorded in the secondary appartements of the château de Fontainebleau in the first 80 years of the 19th Century. Listed en suite with a bergère, it was almost certainly sold in the sales of either 1881 or 1886.
With their distictive 'pieds en console', these tabourets are characteristic of Jacob's Neo-classical oeuvre. The legs, however, are not tenoned through into the seat-rail and would, therefore appear to be associated.

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