BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE MAHOGANY CHAISES
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1800
Each upholstered in gold-stitched pale pink fabric, the rectangular pierced back with trellis pattern decorated with floral medallions within roundels, the seat on foliate-wrapped turned tapering legs headed by paterae and teminating in turned sabots, each stamped once 'G. JACOB'
33¾ in. (86 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

The present chairs relate to the seat furniture by Georges Jacob (1739-1814) a decade earlier for Queen Marie-Antoinette at Rambouillet. The celebrated painter Hubert Robert (1733-1808) had provided the design which was inspired by the Antique and simulated the leather straps found on chairs of that period in Rome. A chair from this suite of seat furniture is illustrated in M. Jarry, Le Siège Français, Fribourg, 1973, p.235, while an armchair is illustrated in M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, Paris, 2002, p.23.

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