A LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT CANAPE BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785

A LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT CANAPE
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785
With rectangular padded back, padded arms with bowed upholstered seat, the crest-rail sharply and finely carved with central berried acanthus, the frames carved with beading, guilloche, coin-pattern, acanthus and leaf-tips, on circular tapering stop-fluted legs headed by paterae and leaf-tips, upholstered in 18th century Beauvais tapestry depicting gardens, military trophies, and a grape-filled classical vase, suspended from festooned draperies on a beige ground, stamped ‘G. IACOB’, with inscribed ‘Baron Robert de Rothschild 5 – 6 – 19’ label, with stencil ‘50’ (three times), lacking central back leg, en suite with lots 119 and 120
45 in. high, 71 in. wide, 24 in. deep

Provenance
Jules Beer, Paris, 25 May 1913, lot 70.
Baron Robert de Rothschild, Paris (1880-1946).
Baron Alain de Rothschild, Paris, by descent (1910-1982).
Property Formerly in the Collection of the Late Baron Robert de Rothschild (1880-1946); Christie's New York, 14 November 1985, lot 226.