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Lot Essay
George Jabob, maître 1765
The canopied bed, with reed-banded frame and triumphal-arched head and foot boards (chevets) crowned by floral sprigs, now lacks the curved metal canopy-pilasters that would have occupied the place of the spheres that cap the carved pilasters. It bears the brand of Georges Jacob (d.1814), elected maître ébéniste in 1765; and, with its flowered sprigs and serpentined legs, relates to one of his patterns for fauteuils ©a la reine introduced in the 1760s (M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, Paris, 2002, p.8).
The bed was almost certainly acquired by David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount Stormont (d. 1796) in the mid 1770s during his service as George III's ambassador to the court of Louis XVI.
The canopied bed, with reed-banded frame and triumphal-arched head and foot boards (chevets) crowned by floral sprigs, now lacks the curved metal canopy-pilasters that would have occupied the place of the spheres that cap the carved pilasters. It bears the brand of Georges Jacob (d.1814), elected maître ébéniste in 1765; and, with its flowered sprigs and serpentined legs, relates to one of his patterns for fauteuils ©a la reine introduced in the 1760s (M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob et son temps, Paris, 2002, p.8).
The bed was almost certainly acquired by David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount Stormont (d. 1796) in the mid 1770s during his service as George III's ambassador to the court of Louis XVI.