BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD MARQUISES
BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with rectangular curved padded back, arms, squab cushion covered in striped green and white and flower-patterned watered silk, the curved back carved with flowerhead guilloche, the arms with reeded terminals on spirally-fluted supports with leaf-wrapped capitals, above a bowfront seat carved with flowerhead-filled guilloche, on spirally-fluted turned tapering front legs headed by leaf headed capitals, with conforming swept square back legs, stamped 'G. JACOB', regilt
35½ in. (90.5 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Etienne Levy by the previous owners as part of Stéphane Boudin of Maison Jansen's scheme of decoration.

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Lot Essay

The elegant chair frames are richly carved in the late 18th century fashion with Venus pearls and sunflowered ribbon-guilloches. Their arms are enriched with Egyptian rayed tablets and have pearls wreathing the triumphal palm capitals of their acanthus-wrapped, reed-enriched and strigil-fluted pillars.

The chairs bear the brand of George Jacob (maître 1765), whose manufactory is thought to have supplied the court of Louis XVI with related fauteuils à la Reine armchairs, featuring the same patterned frame but with arms raised on Egyptian sphinx (G. Janneau, Les Sieges, Paris, 1967, fig. 319).

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