Live Auction 2762Treasures of France
A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Lot 181

A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI JACOB, CIRCA 1805

Closed24 October 2012

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A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI JACOB, CIRCA 1805
Each with scrolled tablet cresting above a guilloche frieze and scrolled arms with fully sculpted swan supports and covered in cream and gold woven silk, raised on lyre-carved lion's paw monopodia, one frame with stenciled inventory number IC6F500 (4)

Anonymous Sale; Christie's, New York, 25-26 September 2001, lot 18.

Specialist note

Henri Jacob, maître in 1779.

These elegant fauteuils can be attributed to Henri Jacob on the basis of an identical set stamped by him, sold Ader Tajan, Paris, 15 December 1993, lot 126.