A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT FAUTEILS BY GEORGE...
A SET OF FOUR 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’, one inscribed in pencil ?’AB’, one inscribed in pencil ‘4’ (three times), ‘GS’, and ‘FL’, one stenciled ‘29’ and inscribed in pencil ‘GS’ and ‘5’, en suite with lots 120 and 121
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) 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.
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A SET OF FOUR 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’, one inscribed in pencil ?’AB’, one inscribed in pencil ‘4’ (three times), ‘GS’, and ‘FL’, one stenciled ‘29’ and inscribed in pencil ‘GS’ and ‘5’, en suite with lots 120 and 121
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) 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.
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