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A SET OF FOUR LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY CHAISES
A SET OF FOUR LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY CHAISES
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A SET OF FOUR LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY CHAISES

ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1810-20

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A SET OF FOUR LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY CHAISES
ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1810-20
Each with lappet-carved top rail on reeded supports issuing from elongated rhyton form brackets flanking slightly bowed drop-in-seats, faint pencil inscriptions to the rails and some chisel-numbering, one with ink-inscribed label 'M Grognot', covered in brown silk
37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high
Provenance
Grognot collection (according to label).
Literature
One from the set, almost certainly, illustrated M. Jarry, Le Siège Français, Fribourg, 1973, p 302 pl. 303.

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The bold, innovative design of these chairs is typical of the output of what is possibly the most renowned Parisian furniture maker of the early 19th Century. Jacob-Desmalter et Cie garnered favour with many significant patrons, such as Pauline Borghese and the Empress Josephine. Jarry (loc. cit.) attributes the chair to Jacob-Desmalter, furthermore it is almost certain that the chair she illustrates is one from this set, as she states it is from the Grognot collection. These chairs with their robust combination of classical motifs and rich materials are typical of Jacob-Desmalter’s oeuvre and whilst other direct comparables have not been discovered, details of their design as well as their confidence of line have strong parallels amongst Jacob-Desmalter’s known body of work.

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