A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FIRESCREEN

CIRCA 1780, STAMPED G. IACOB

Details

A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FIRESCREEN
Circa 1780, stamped G. IACOB
The rectangular frame carved with piastres surmounted by a foliate clasp and pomegranate finials, on scrolled splayed trestle supports, the rising adjustable screen covered with later polychrome floral silk, with the marque au feu of Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre and remains of an illegible old inscribed paper label, regilt
41in. (104cm.) high, 25½in. (65cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

Provenance

Louis Jean-Marie de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre, Grand Amiral de France, (1725-1793) possibly for the Hôtel de Penthièvre, Paris.
With Mallett, London.

Literature

Connoisseur, October 1962.

Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1756.

The marque au feu of an anchor is that of Louis Jean-Marie de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre, Grand Amiral de France and grandson of Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan. As it does not bear any mark of a specific château, this firescreen may have been ordered for Paris and more precisely for the hôtel de Penthièvre. For similar examples of carved firescreens by Jacob for Penthièvre, see Sotheby's Monaco 23 June 1985, lot 889 (with a mark of Penthièvre) and a second one (part of a suite of seat furniture) from the château de Chanteloup, Christie's London, 25 June 1988, lot 59.

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