A PAIR OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE AND ROSE-PAINTED BANQUETTES BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785

A PAIR OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE AND ROSE-PAINTED BANQUETTES
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785
Each seat-rail delicately carved with a beaded border flanking a trail of twine-tied flower posies above a bell-husk moulding, on three turned and tapering stop-fluted front legs headed by paterae and terminating in leaftip-waisted peg feet, the stop-fluted tapering back legs carved with a foliate collar, upholstered in blue and cream silk damask 'aux cyclopes', each stamped twice 'G JACOB' and 'JME', largely effaced, one seat-rail inscribed in pencil 'H G McKay June 1862' and with label inscribed in black ink '4(?)15',
16 1/2 in.(42 cm.) high; 63 3/4 in. (162 cm.) wide; 14 1/2 in. (37 cm.) deep

Provenance
Supplied to the salon of the pavillon built for the Comte de Provence and the Comtesse de Balbi at Versailles (1785-1793).
Seized and sold in a Revolutionary sale 20 July, 1793.
With Dalva Brothers, New York,
James W. Barney; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 May, 1948, lots 119 and 120.