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Georges Jacob, maître in 1765
The boldly carved scroll supports featured on the present console table are characteristic of the celebrated menuisier Georges Jacob. Similar acanthus-fronted angled scroll supports can be found on a larger console commissioned from Jacob in 1776 by Marie-Fortunée d’Este-Modène, princesse de Conti, for the Salon de compagnie of her hôtel particulier on the rue Saint-Dominique in Paris, and sold Christies, Paris, November 30, 2016, lot 11. A further related console featuring a frieze described as ‘composée de rais de coeur, perles, cannelures’, and with scroll-carved supports and stretchers centred by a vase just as the present lot was supplied by Jacob in 1785 to Monsieur, comte de Provence, and sold Christie’s, Monaco, 2 July 1999, lot 185. In the context of the present console table, it is probable that Jacob drew his inspiration from a design dated 1766 and signed by the renowned sculpteur, ciseleur, dessinateur and graveur Jean-Louis Prieur (1732-1795), now in the University Library in Warsaw.
Georges Jacob was the most celebrated and prolific of the menuisiers en sièges in 18th century France. He moved to Paris in 1755, first working in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Lerouge, before setting up his own workshop in the rue de Cléry – the street of the artisans du siège – and from 1775, in the rue Meslay. It is in this last atelier that he spent the most important part of his professional career and where his most significant Royal commissions were executed, including those supplied to Marie-Antoinette, the comte d’Artois and the duc de Penthièvre.
The boldly carved scroll supports featured on the present console table are characteristic of the celebrated menuisier Georges Jacob. Similar acanthus-fronted angled scroll supports can be found on a larger console commissioned from Jacob in 1776 by Marie-Fortunée d’Este-Modène, princesse de Conti, for the Salon de compagnie of her hôtel particulier on the rue Saint-Dominique in Paris, and sold Christies, Paris, November 30, 2016, lot 11. A further related console featuring a frieze described as ‘composée de rais de coeur, perles, cannelures’, and with scroll-carved supports and stretchers centred by a vase just as the present lot was supplied by Jacob in 1785 to Monsieur, comte de Provence, and sold Christie’s, Monaco, 2 July 1999, lot 185. In the context of the present console table, it is probable that Jacob drew his inspiration from a design dated 1766 and signed by the renowned sculpteur, ciseleur, dessinateur and graveur Jean-Louis Prieur (1732-1795), now in the University Library in Warsaw.
Georges Jacob was the most celebrated and prolific of the menuisiers en sièges in 18th century France. He moved to Paris in 1755, first working in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Lerouge, before setting up his own workshop in the rue de Cléry – the street of the artisans du siège – and from 1775, in the rue Meslay. It is in this last atelier that he spent the most important part of his professional career and where his most significant Royal commissions were executed, including those supplied to Marie-Antoinette, the comte d’Artois and the duc de Penthièvre.