Each with leaf-tip carved crest rail, continuous arms with scrolled knuckles, beaded seat rail raised on step-fluted tapering legs, upholstered in a pale blue silk damask, each stamped G. IACOB once and B.C. four times to underside of seat rail
32 in. (81.5 cm.) high

By repute, by descent in the family of Georges Jacob.
Anonymous sale; Jean Louis Picard, Lucien Solanet, Paris, 10 December 1993, lot 161.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 388.

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Lot Essay

Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

The most famous and the prolific of all eighteenth-century French chair makers, menuisier Georges Jacob (1739-1814) produced an incalculable quantity of chairs of all types and styles from the reign of Louis XV until the Consulat. From 1773 until the revolution, Georges Jacob worked continuously for the French royal family, furnishing the main royal residences including Versailles and undertaking many commissions for members of the royal court.