A Louis XVI Giltwood and Caned Fauteuil de Bureau in the manner of Georges Jacob, Circa 1780
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Louis XVI Giltwood and Caned Fauteuil de Bureau in the manner of Georges Jacob, Circa 1780
the arched back frame and padded scroll arms with leaf-tip carving above a revolving guilloche-carved seat rail and piastre-carved seat frame, on circular tapering spiral fluted legs headed by acanthus and terminating in bulbous feet; covered in floral-embroidered green and ivory silk with round cushion; the caning green and ivory painted; repairs and replacements to pivoting frame
height 34 1/2 in.; width: 21 3/4 in.; depth 25 1/2 in.
87.5 cm; 55 cm; 65 cm
Steinitz, Paris;
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund, New York;
Christie's New York, 26 January 2021, lot 251;
Where acquired by the present collector.
A related fauteuil de bureau stamped by Jacob and bearing the mark of Marie-Antoinette's Garde-Meuble at the Trianon, formerly in the collections of the Baron Double and Comte Isaac de Camondo, is now in the Louvre, Paris (OA 6553), illustrated in Michel Beurdeley, GeorgesJacob et son Temps (2002), p.22.
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