Live Auction 10897From Roentgen to Faberge: A European Private Collection
A PAIR OF EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Lot 82

A PAIR OF EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

BY GEORGES AND FRANCOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB, DIT JACOB DESMALTER, CIRCA 1803-1813

Closed20 May 2015

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
BY GEORGES AND FRANCOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB, DIT JACOB DESMALTER, CIRCA 1803-1813
Each with laurel-bound reeded and channelled frame, the square back with raised padded tapestry panel above a bowed seat on turned, tapering, spirally-fluted legs, both stamped 'JACOB.D/R.MESLEE', the allegorical tapestry panels probably original, gilding refreshed
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 8 February 1981, lot 295.
With Wolfgang Neidhard, Munich, where acquired by the current owner.

Specialist note

This stamp was employed by Georges Jacob (1739-1814, maître in 1765) and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob (1770-1841) between 1803 and 1813, when they worked together under the company name Jacob Desmalter. Prior to that, François-Honoré-Georges was in partnership with his elder brother, Georges II (1768-1803), during which time the brothers used the stamp 'JACOB FRERES RUE MESLEE' (1796-1803). After Georges II's untimely death in 1803, Jacob père re-joined the firm where he remained until 1813.