A LOUIS XV/XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775, REDECORATED

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A LOUIS XV/XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUIL
Attributed to Georges Jacob, circa 1775, redecorated
The cartouche-shaped padded back and circular seat upholstered in blue velvet, the frame carved with ribbon-ties and beading on voluted foliate-carved legs, with handwritten numbers to underside 5349 and M3256

Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

This model of fauteuil, with its very distinctively fluted seatrail and scroll-headed cabriole leg is illustrated P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 1989, p.412-413. Another similar pair of fauteuils, with molded rails and attributed to Georges Jacob, is in the collection of the Museé Carnavalet, Paris and illustrated Forray-Carlier, Le Mobilier du Museé Carnavalet, Paris, 2000, pp. 192-193.

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