A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE

Lot 365
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Lot 365 | A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE
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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE

BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785

The arched back carved with rope-twist motif above stiff-leaf border flanked by foliate finials, issuing arms with scroll terminals on supports with acanthus-wrapped scrolls, the seat-rail with stiff-leaf molding above a band of interlaced rosettes, the gadroon-collared tapering fluted legs headed by a rosette and terminating in foliate feet, the padded back, seat à chassis and arms covered in gilt-tooled tan leather, the back impressed with the coat of arms of Louis XVI, stamped twice 'G.IACOB', the seat webbing inscribed in red chalk with '1036' beneath effaced '136'

43 in. (110 cm.) high, 32 in. (81.5 cm.) wide, 30 in. (76.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably the collection of Christian Dior.

Probably anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris, 16 June 1967, lot 82 (where described as bearing the stamp of Carpentier).

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1998.
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