Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 11th August 2020
Lot 273
A SET OF THREE FRENCH GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS IN LOUIS XVI STYLE AFTER THE MODEL BY GEORGES JACOB
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £7000
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Description
A SET OF THREE FRENCH GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS IN LOUIS XVI STYLE
AFTER THE MODEL BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 19TH CENTURY
each with a rectangular padded back and bowed seat, the carved frames with five acorn finials and entwined with flowers and leaves, the seat-rail with intersecting demi-lunes on ribbed leaf wrapped tapering legs (3)
PROVENANCE
Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)
Edmund de Rothschild (1916 - 2009)
The Trustees of Exbury House
CATALOGUE NOTE
These chairs are based upon the polychrome painted chairs, part of a suite, made for Marie-Antoinette's Bedchamber at the Petit Trianon, c.1787, illustrated by D. Mayer, Versailles, Furniture of the Royal Palace, 17th & 18th centuries, vol. I.2002, p.278.