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LOT 27 A SET OF EIGHT LOUIS XVI GREY AND WHITE-PAINTED CHAISES.BY G...

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细节 A SET OF EIGHT LOUIS XVI GREY AND WHITE-PAINTED CHAISESBY GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785Each with lyre-shaped chanelled back flanked by eagle heads and enriched with pearl-mouldings terminating in rosettes flanking an acanthus leaf, the scrolling uprights decorated with volutes and harebells above a circular seat on tapering baluster-turned and stop-fluted legs headed by rosettes, on toupie feet, the back and seat upholstered in cream silk, each stamped G.IACOB, three chairs with stamp EXPOSITION DE PARIS, one with label Copenhague 1935. LArt français au XVIIIème siècle, prêteur: Madame Bouvier and quatre chaises Louis XVI36 in. (91 cm.) high; 17 in. (43 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep 来源 Collection of Alexander Barker (1797-1873), 108 Piccadilly, London; his sale Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6, 8-11 June 1874, lots 365, 366, 367 and 368 (9 June). Collection of Madame Henri Bouvier before 1935. Collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968) and his second wife, Mrs Edith Chester Beatty, née Dunn (d. 1952). Georges Geffroy (1905-1971) (according to pencil inscription Geoffroy to the depository label). Anonymous sale; Christies, Paris, 24 June 2002, lot 182. 出版 ‘The Boudoir in the South Kensington Museum’, The Architect 2 (1869), p. 280.‘South Kensington Museum’, Journal of the Society of Arts, 1869, p. 127.The South Kensington Museum, Eighteenth Century Art-Relics, The Art Journal, London, 1869, p. 340.C. Eastlake, A Guide to the South Kensington Museum, London, 1870, p. 19. ‘Marie Antoinette’s Boudoir, South Kensington Museum’, The Illustrated London News, 25 November 1871, vol. LIX, no. 1680, p. 496.P. Verlet, Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle français, Paris, 1963, p. 231, fig. 6.N. Smith, Alexander Barker and the South Kensington Museum, V&A Archive, London, 2017.M.-E. Marchand, A Parisian Boudoir in London: The South Kensington Museum Sérilly Room, Journal of Design History, Volume 31, Issue 2, May 2018, p. 167-183.COMPARATIVE LITERATUREH. Lefuel, Georges Jacob, ébéniste du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1923, p. 370 et 379, pl. XIII.F. de Salverte, Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle, leurs œuvres et leurs marques, Paris, 1934, p. 154-155.F.J.B. Watson, Le meuble Louis XVI, Paris, 1963, p. 138, cat. n° 177.G. Janneau, Les ateliers d’ébénistes et de menuisiers aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, 1975, p. 71. 展览 On loan at the South Kensington Museum, London, November 1871-1874, no. 1680.LArt français au XVIII siècle, Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace, 25 August-6 October 1935, cat. no. 913.Marie-Antoinette, Archduchesse, dauphine et reine, Versailles, Château de Versailles, 16 May-2 November 1955, cat. no. 714. 注意事项 This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’swill inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storageare set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere.Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only.Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com.If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm.Lots are not available for collection at weekends. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.This distinctive suite of seat-furniture by Georges Jacob (maître in 1765) with eagle-headed terminals to the top rail, has traditionally always been associated with Marie-Antoinette. Surviving both in bois doré and mahogany, it includes two bergères formerly in the de Ganay and then Schneider Collection, one of which is illustrated in H. Lefuel, Georges Jacob, Paris, 1923, pl. XIII. Although the chairs bear no Royal inventory marks, they have been included in two exhibitions where an association with Queen Marie-Antoinette has been made. Firstly at the Victoria and Albert Museum (formerly the South Kensington Museum) London, in 1871. Four of the chairs from this suite were displayed in ‘Marie-Antoinette’s Boudoir,’ which was the name given to the newly acquired period room created in 1778 for Anne-Marie-Louise-Jeanne Thomas de Dommangeville, Marquise de Sérilly (1762–99) which had been purchased by the Museum in 1869. It was believed that Marie-Antoinette had assisted with the decorative scheme and furnishings as the Marquise de Sérilly had been a close friend. The suite was presented again in an exhibition at the Château de Versailles in 1955, Marie-Antoinette, Archiduchess, dauphine et reine. At this exhibition, the chairs were shown alongside the pair of corresponding bergères from the Schneider collection (no. 713), along with four voyeuses also believed to be en suite with the present lot (no. 715). The lyre-form splat, as seen in the present lot, is particularly associated with Georges Jacob’s work for the Royal household around 1788. This includes the suite of lyre-back voyeuses delivered to the comte d'Artois for the salon de musique at Bagatelle, as well a related pair of voyeuses supplied to Jean-Baptiste Tourteau de Septeuil, premier Valet de Chambre du Roi from 1779 to 1792, which were sold at Christie's, Monaco, 18 June 1989, lot 188. ALEXANDER BARKER (1797-1873) From humble beginnings, starting as an apprentice bootmaker in his father’s shop, by 1850, Alexander Barker had established himself as one of the leading collectors of his generation and was a founding member of the Burlington Fine Art Club. His network included continental dealers, aristocratic collectors and museum officials, he enjoyed a particularly close relationship throughout his life with the former South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) loaning approximately 500 objects to the museum between 1859-1867, including the present suite. Following his death, his vast collection was sold at Christie’s, London in 1874. The sale included Piero della Francesca’s The Nativity and Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Mars both of which were acquired for the National Gallery, London (inv. NG908 and NG915), rather serving to verify the somewhat egotistical declaration he had reputedly made ‘whatever I have is the best, were I to have a jackass, it would be the best jackass in England’ (N. Smith, Alexander Barker and the South Kensington Museum, V&A Archive, London, 2017). SIR ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY (1875-1968) Another self-made man, Chester Beatty was an American mining magnate who, together with his wife Edith Beatty (née Dunn 1886-1952), became one of the most important collectors of African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern manuscripts. He founded the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin in 1950 to house his collection which was opened to the public in 1954. Upon his death he bequeathed his wife’s collection of Marie-Antoinette’s personal furniture to the Louvre.

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