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Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, 1739-1814, received maître 1765.
This fauteuil de bureau, with its foliate-carved arm-supports and distinctive chamfering of the seat-rails, shares much in common with the oeuvre of the menuisier Georges Jacob. A related bureau stamped by Jacob is in the mus/aee du Louvre (illustrated in C. Dreyfus, The Louvre Museum, French furniture, Paris, 1921, vol.II, fig.40), whilst a further simialr example attributed to Jacob was sold from the collection of Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent, Christie's House sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 192 (/P34,560).
This fauteuil de bureau, with its foliate-carved arm-supports and distinctive chamfering of the seat-rails, shares much in common with the oeuvre of the menuisier Georges Jacob. A related bureau stamped by Jacob is in the mus/aee du Louvre (illustrated in C. Dreyfus, The Louvre Museum, French furniture, Paris, 1921, vol.II, fig.40), whilst a further simialr example attributed to Jacob was sold from the collection of Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent, Christie's House sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 192 (/P34,560).