A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT FAUTEILS BY GEORGES JACOB...

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT FAUTEILS
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785
Each with rectangular padded back, padded arms with bowed upholstered seat, the crest-rails 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 flower-filled baskets and musical and garden trophies suspended from festooned draperies on a beige ground, each stamped ‘G. IACOB’, en suite with lots 119 and 121
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high

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.