A SET OF EIGHT RESTAURATION MAHOGANY CHAIRS

BY FRANOIS-HONORÉ-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER

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A SET OF EIGHT RESTAURATION MAHOGANY CHAIRS
By Franois-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
The chanelled concave-fronted tablet back above a reeded shield shape with scroll terminals, the drop-in seat covered in yellow fabric on sabre legs, seven chairs stamped '*IACOB', some chairs with garde meuble paper label, restoration and replacements. (8)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Arcole Paris, 15 November 1989, lot 165 (118,263 Ffr).

Lot Essay

This stamp was employed by Franois-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter between 1813-25.

These 'chaises à la style Anglaise', with their Grecian tablet rails and sabre legs, mirror patterns published by Thomas Sheraton in his Encyclopaedia of 1804, pl.1. A closely related set of English Regency chairs of this model was sold anonymously at Christie's Edinburgh, 23 May 1996, lot 347.

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