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拍品专文
Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.
With their boldly carved reverse backs, this superb pair of bergères closely relates to a set of seat furniture, also by the celebrated ébéniste Georges Jacob, delivered to Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orléans (1725-1785) for his château de Raincy. A fauteuil from this set, in giltwood, which sold from the Bernheimer collection (Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 2015, lot 416), bears an original label by Jacob’s workshop inscribed ‘fauteuil commode pour Monsieur le Duc d’Orléans au Raincy’. The use of the term ‘commode’ to describe this type of fauteuil is also found on invoices by Georges Jacob, such as that for the delivery of a bergère with similar reverse scrolling back supplied to the comte d’Artois, for the use of the King, at Bagatelle (sold Christie’s, London, 23 June 1999, lot 30). An identical pair of bergères, also grey-painted and stamped by Georges Jacob, was sold from the collection of Mrs Paul Mellon, Sotheby’s, New York, 21-23 November 2014, lot 406 ($50.000). A similar pair, in giltwood, was sold at Tajan, Paris, 23 March 1999, lot 52.
With their boldly carved reverse backs, this superb pair of bergères closely relates to a set of seat furniture, also by the celebrated ébéniste Georges Jacob, delivered to Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orléans (1725-1785) for his château de Raincy. A fauteuil from this set, in giltwood, which sold from the Bernheimer collection (Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 2015, lot 416), bears an original label by Jacob’s workshop inscribed ‘fauteuil commode pour Monsieur le Duc d’Orléans au Raincy’. The use of the term ‘commode’ to describe this type of fauteuil is also found on invoices by Georges Jacob, such as that for the delivery of a bergère with similar reverse scrolling back supplied to the comte d’Artois, for the use of the King, at Bagatelle (sold Christie’s, London, 23 June 1999, lot 30). An identical pair of bergères, also grey-painted and stamped by Georges Jacob, was sold from the collection of Mrs Paul Mellon, Sotheby’s, New York, 21-23 November 2014, lot 406 ($50.000). A similar pair, in giltwood, was sold at Tajan, Paris, 23 March 1999, lot 52.