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ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLÉE (1796/1803), PAIR OF LARGE ARMCHAIRS WITH CROSS BACK AND FLUTING, CONSULATE/EMPIRE PERIOD in antique green lacquered and gilded wood. It presents in front of the feet in the form of flat balusters, decorated with a spray of palmettes, resting on a base. This base is reversed, identically, with respect to the connecting dice of the belt, to serve as an armrest support. The back legs are Etruscan style with scrolls on the sides and a large acanthus leaf on the edge. The belt is decorated with rosettes all around. The armrests, with scrolls, are decorated with palmettes at each end and end at the level of the hand with a cylinder, resting on a Doric capital, decorated in the center with a superb lion's head in chased and gilded bronze. (Good general condition, the gilding of the period worn in places of rubbing at the end of the armrests) A Consulat-Empire period pair of large armchairs attributed to Jacob Freres 98 x 68 x 56 CM - 38,6 x 26,8 x 22 IN. - - Related works for armchairs stamped Jacob-Desmalter with comparable decoration - François de Salverte, "Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle", Paris, de Nobele, 1962, pl. LXXX, armchair coming from the furniture of King Louis of Holland, in the Tuileries - Ernest Dumonthier, "Bois de sièges", Paris, Éditions Charles Massin, plate 66, armchair preserved at the Mobilier National. - The front legs of these armchairs are identical to those on a number of seats stamped Jacob in various residences of the Emperor, see the armchair from the music room of Madame Bonaparte in Saint-Cloud, illustrated on page 38 of the book on "Le mobilier du Général Moreau" R.M.N. 1992. Provenance According to a family tradition would have belonged to a great collector of Napoleonic objects or to a former minister of the Republic
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ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLÉE (1796/1803), PAIR OF LARGE ARMCHAIRS WITH CROSS BACK AND FLUTING, CONSULATE/EMPIRE PERIOD in antique green lacquered and gilded wood. It presents in front of the feet in the form of flat balusters, decorated with a spray of palmettes, resting on a base. This base is reversed, identically, with respect to the connecting dice of the belt, to serve as an armrest support. The back legs are Etruscan style with scrolls on the sides and a large acanthus leaf on the edge. The belt is decorated with rosettes all around. The armrests, with scrolls, are decorated with palmettes at each end and end at the level of the hand with a cylinder, resting on a Doric capital, decorated in the center with a superb lion's head in chased and gilded bronze. (Good general condition, the gilding of the period worn in places of rubbing at the end of the armrests) A Consulat-Empire period pair of large armchairs attributed to Jacob Freres 98 x 68 x 56 CM - 38,6 x 26,8 x 22 IN. - - Related works for armchairs stamped Jacob-Desmalter with comparable decoration - François de Salverte, "Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle", Paris, de Nobele, 1962, pl. LXXX, armchair coming from the furniture of King Louis of Holland, in the Tuileries - Ernest Dumonthier, "Bois de sièges", Paris, Éditions Charles Massin, plate 66, armchair preserved at the Mobilier National. - The front legs of these armchairs are identical to those on a number of seats stamped Jacob in various residences of the Emperor, see the armchair from the music room of Madame Bonaparte in Saint-Cloud, illustrated on page 38 of the book on "Le mobilier du Général Moreau" R.M.N. 1992. Provenance According to a family tradition would have belonged to a great collector of Napoleonic objects or to a former minister of the Republic
