Suite of six mahogany and mahogany veneer chairs stamped Iac - Lot 251

Suite of six mahogany and mahogany veneer chairs stamped Iacob from the Restoration period. X-shaped openwork backrest centered by a roundel. Minor restorations. H. 87 L. 45 D. 39 cm Stamp used by François Honoré Gerorges Jacob Desmalter between 1813 and 1825. For very similar chairs with the same stamp, inventoried in 1833 in the home of the Duchesse d'Orléans at the Tuileries, see the exhibition catalog by Jean- Jacques Gautier, Sièges en Société au Mobilier national, 2017, page 220 (inventory numbers GMT 10443, 1 and 2). See also the chair illustrated in Guillaume Janneau, Les Sièges, 1967, plates 402. This other chair by Jacob- Desmalter, also similar to ours, is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. no. 24187).