Live Auction 16219An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI CARVED BEECH FAUTEUILS
Lot 22

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI CARVED BEECH FAUTEUILS

BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1780

Closed13 December 2018

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GBP 4,000

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI CARVED BEECH FAUTEUILS
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1780
Each with entrelac-carved frame, with arched upholstered back and padded arms above a bowed seat on turned and stop-fluted tapering supports, both stamped 'G. JACOB', covered in a duck-egg blue striped silk, formerly painted
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Georges Jacob, 1739-1814, maître 1765.

An apparently identical model by Jacob with an entrelac-carved frame is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Ebénistes Français du XVIIIè Siècle, Paris, 1998, pp. 418, fig. C.