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Lot 14 A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SCARLET AND GILT CHINESE LACQUER AND VERNIS-DECORATED BUREAU DE DAME
Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763)
Jacques Dubois
07.04.1694 - 23.10.1763
France
Jacques Dubois was a master cabinetmaker of the 18th century.
He was the king's cabinetmaker and also worked for Princess Louise Elisabeth, the Duchess of Parma, the Duke of Orleans and the nobility of the time.
He was one of the masters of the Louis XV style, a specialist in varnished veneers, reproducing the effects of Far Eastern lacquers, with black or red backgrounds, decorated with Chinese and pagodas, of a very high quality.
He also executed the delicately chiselled bronzes applied to his furniture.
Lot 50 A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD AND BLUE-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
Georges Jacob (1739 - 1814)
Georges Jacob
06.06.1739 - 05.07.1814
France
Georges Jacob, nicknamed Jacob the Elder, was a famous furniture maker of the French Neoclassical period. He was a pupil of Louis Delanois. Georges Jacob lived a long and rich life, during which he worked in many styles. He started out as a Rococo master in 1765 and was a supplier to the royal court and in particular to Marie-Antoinette (Queen of France since 1774), but soon moved on to the more austere style of French Neoclassicism and, later, Empire.