BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1780

Details

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1780
Each covered in gold and yellow dotted silk, the rectangular back with châpeau de gendarme gadrooned toprail with beaded border, flanked by detached fluted ionic columns surmounted by rosettes and turned finials, the arms on spirally-fluted turned and reeded uprights above a bowfront beaded seat, on spirally-fluted turned tapering legs headed by rosettes, stamped 'G.IACOB', re-decorated (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Galerie Perrin, Paris.

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Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

These chairs are very close in overall form and decorative details to a suite made by Jacob in 1787 for the Salon des Jeux at the Château St. Cloud (illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 419).

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