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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT FAUTEILS

Starting price
$ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
17.04.2024 14:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
Event location
USA, New York
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ID 1177084
Lot 119 | A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILT-WALNUT FAUTEILS
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.
Artist:Georges Jacob (1739 - 1814)
Medium:Giltwood, Walnut, Wood
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Chair
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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