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Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
A related table was supplied by Georges Jacob to Monsieur, the comte de Provence, in 1785. This table is listed in the 'Mémoire des ouvrages faits pour le service du Garde-Meuble de Monsieur, frère du Roi sous les ordres de Monsieur de Bard par Jacob, Menuisier en meubles, rue Meslée, le 17 Octobre 1785' and is reproduced by Hector Lefuel in Georges Jacob, Ebéniste du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1923, p. 203. The table, described as bien fait, cost 300 livres and an additional 350 livres was charged for preparation of the gesso and painting. Monsieur, the comte de Provence, brother of Louis XVI and later Louis XVIII, was the largest client of Georges Jacob, who apparently exercised a virtual monopoly as his menuisier ordinaire in providing furniture for his appartments in other Royal palaces.
A related table was supplied by Georges Jacob to Monsieur, the comte de Provence, in 1785. This table is listed in the 'Mémoire des ouvrages faits pour le service du Garde-Meuble de Monsieur, frère du Roi sous les ordres de Monsieur de Bard par Jacob, Menuisier en meubles, rue Meslée, le 17 Octobre 1785' and is reproduced by Hector Lefuel in Georges Jacob, Ebéniste du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1923, p. 203. The table, described as bien fait, cost 300 livres and an additional 350 livres was charged for preparation of the gesso and painting. Monsieur, the comte de Provence, brother of Louis XVI and later Louis XVIII, was the largest client of Georges Jacob, who apparently exercised a virtual monopoly as his menuisier ordinaire in providing furniture for his appartments in other Royal palaces.