CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR
Creator(s): Georges Jacob (Maker)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
Part of a suite of four chairs and two sofas. Its softly shaped back is carved with a band of guilloche and seat rails are decorated with laurel leaves and berries. The rectangular, tapering legs are carved with a ribbon design that is tied around the back and terminates in a bold volute in openwork carved at the front with an acanthus motif. Gilded in two tone gold (yellow and green).
- Object name:
- CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR
- Made from:
- Gilt wood -- silk -- velvet
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- ca. 1780
- Size:
- 88.9 × 50.2 × 45.7 cm (35 × 19 3/4 × 18 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 31.95
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- STAMP; NUMBER One chair stamped: Jacob; has the number 7 in ink; the other chairs have the numbers: 2, 8 and 9 in ink
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973