A pair of brass-mounted mahogany chairs both stamped G Jacob and Palais des Tuileries, one once the other three times Empire, circa 1800

each with a curved rectangular top-rail above a pierced back inset with a diaper motif and a roundel above a rectangular padded seat on gadrooned tapering front legs and sabre rear legs

Collection Grognot et Joinel
Purchased Palais Galleria, 16th March 1967, lot 106.

Chefs-d'oeuvre des Grands Ebénistes', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1951, no. 79 and no. 80.

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebénistes Parisiens du XIXe Siècle, (1795-1870), Paris, 1965, where one is illustrated, in Planche XLIV.

In overall good originial order, there is a repaired break to the right hand side of the splat of each chair. There is a repaired crack to the right hand side of the back of on chair. There are restored breaks to the top and bottom joint of the splat of one chair. On the same chair there is a small piece of timber missing to the back. Old minor cracks, marks and chips throughout consistent with age and use.
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Georges Jacob received Master 1765.