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A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS
Lot 13 PROPERTY FROM A GENEVA PENTHOUSE DECORATED BY NYFFELER
LOTS 1-23, 56-61 & 387-409

A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS

BY JACOB-DESMALTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed27 October 2015

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A SET OF FOUR EMPIRE MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS
BY JACOB-DESMALTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each covered in beige fabric, the toprail with foliate scroll terminals, the arms carved with floral husk-trails on stiff-leaf baluster arm-supports, the tapering baluster legs headed by lotus leaves and surmounted by paterae, each stamped JACOB D/ R.MESLEE

With Didier Aaron, Paris, September 1987.

Specialist note

George (1739-1814) and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob (1770-1841) called Jacob-Desmalter employed this stamp between 1803 and 1813.