BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Comprising a pair of fauteuils and a canapé, each with stiff leaf tip and channelled frame, the square back above a bowed seat on tapering, fluted legs, each chair stamped 'G. JACOB', upholstered in silk floral damask, later gilt
The canapé; 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 59 ½ in. (151 cm.) wide; 23 ½ in. (61 cm.) deep
The fauteuils; 33 in. (84 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) wide; 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
A pair of fauteuils of this model almost certainly en suite with the present was sold Christie's, London, 18 June 1987, lot 151. This suite of furniture is related to seat-furniture supplied to the boudoir of Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, a chair from which is now in the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Berlin (Salverte, Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1953, plate XXXV, fig. 4).

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