Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
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BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775
Details
A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FIRESCREEN
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775
With arched sliding panel covered in floral-embroidered blue and grey striped silk to one side, the frame carved with oak leaves and ribbon-tied berried laurel on foliate carved twinned splayed legs with scroll feet, inscribed in ink R479 and with paper label inscribed in chalk 998
43 in. (109 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) deep
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1775
With arched sliding panel covered in floral-embroidered blue and grey striped silk to one side, the frame carved with oak leaves and ribbon-tied berried laurel on foliate carved twinned splayed legs with scroll feet, inscribed in ink R479 and with paper label inscribed in chalk 998
43 in. (109 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Collection Baron Eugene de Rothschild, Rue Michel-Ange, Paris; Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR No. R479) after May 1940.
Transferred to the Nazi repository 'Lager Peter', Alt Aussee, Austria. Recovered by Western Allied Forces and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (Inv no. M2884 4).
Returned to France, 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
Anonymous Sale, Christie's New York, 30 October 1996, lot 387.
Transferred to the Nazi repository 'Lager Peter', Alt Aussee, Austria. Recovered by Western Allied Forces and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (Inv no. M2884 4).
Returned to France, 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
Anonymous Sale, Christie's New York, 30 October 1996, lot 387.