A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGES JACOB AND AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DEMOSTHENE DUGOURC, CIRCA 1785-1790

A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY FAUTEUILS
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGES JACOB AND AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DEMOSTHENE DUGOURC, CIRCA 1785-1790
Each out-scrolled back carved with anthemia and berrying laurel above an overupholstered seat flanked by padded arms supported by sphinxes over a guilloche carved seatrail and leaftip capped tapering legs

Provenance

Jacques Doucet; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 June 1912, lot 295 (part of a larger suite).
Marius Paulme (1863-1928, by whom acquired at the Doucet sale).
Anonymous sale; Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 2 March 1972 (as a set of six fauteuils and a canapé).
Acquired 13 April 1972 by Clement Conger for First Lady Patricia Nixon for the White House.
Subsequently sold privately (the two fauteuils not in the Dalva sale are in a private collection).