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A LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY CHAUFFEUSE
BY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1780-85
The incurved fluted back and square seat covered in silver and gold upholstery,
stamped G * JACOB to back rail
$2,000-3,000

Georges Jacob, maître in 1766.
The elegantly tapered legs ‘en fuseau’ of this chair are identical to those
found in a set of seat furniture made by Jacob in 1790 for the ‘pavillon chinois’
of Princesse Kinsky (1729-1794), rue Saint-Dominique, Paris. The model
derives from a design by the architect Charles Percier (d. 1838; co-author
with Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (d. 1853) of Recueil de décorations
intérieures, 1801), who supplied patterns of seat furniture to Georges Jacob in
the ‘Etruscan’ manner at the end of the Ancien Régime.

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE
CHENETS
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each formed as recumbent lions resting on draped plinth, raised on short
tapering feet
12Ω in. (32 cm.) high, 17Ω in. (44.5 cm.) wide, 4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) deep (2)
$2,000-3,000

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1780
The rectangular clock surmounted by military trophy cresting, above circular
dial signed 'Lepaute / Hger Du Roi' and surrounded by foliate garland, against
pink paper ground, supported on a rectangular white marble plinth
20æ in. (53 cm.) high, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) wide, 7Ω in. (19 cm.) deep
$15,000-20,000
PROVENANCE:
The Collection of Giuseppe Rossi; Sotheby’s, London, 12 March 1999, lot 1246.
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
LITERATURE:
The Chinese Porcelain Company, Important Continental Furniture and Chinese
Export Porcelain, New York, 2000, pp. 42-43, no. 13.

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