EXCEPTIONAL "ANTIQUE" GUERIDON of round shape... - Lot 249 - Osenat

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EXCEPTIONAL "ANTIQUE" GUERIDON of round shape... - Lot 249 - Osenat
EXCEPTIONAL "ANTIQUE" GUERIDON of round shape in mahogany, mahogany veneer, green patinated and gilded wood, the top decorated in its center with a star "in intarsia" in lemon tree and palmettes in ebony. It is decorated with stylized "croquets" adorned with pastilles on the periphery. The shaft is carved with laurel leaves and flowers in braces and rests on a tripod base decorated with scrolled palmettes ending in claw feet. Stamped G. IACOB. Directoire period (cracks, some veneer damages) H : 75 - L : 109 cm Provenance : Château de Mortefontaine, property of Joseph Bonaparte under the Ist Empire. Collection of Hector Le Fuel and remained in his descendants until today. Exhibition: Masterpieces of the great cabinetmakers 1790-1850 from G. Jacob to A. Giroux, Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs, January-February 1951, n°64 reproduced. This pedestal table comes from the Château de Mortefontaine, property of the Prince de Condé, bought in 1798 by Joseph Bonaparte. The latter led for France the negotiations which resulted in the treaty of Mortefontaine with the United States (11 Vendemiaire AN 9, 3 October 1800), future King of the Two Sicilies, King of Spain and the Indies. This estate being part of Joseph's private property, his furniture does not bear any iron marks or imprints. There exists in a private collection, the sketch (reproduced opposite) of a pedestal table by Charles Percier of which one can imagine that Jacob had knowledge. This pedestal table, besides its exceptional quality of execution, is a real milestone in the history of furniture and in the production of the Jacobs. One can be surprised by the stamp of Georges Jacob (received master in 1765) and one thinks rather to find the stamp Jacob-Frères, because this pedestal table is stylistically not in the lineage but in true initiator of the furniture carried out for Mrs Récamier 1 for the living room of its private hotel rue du Mont Blanc, that of Joséphine Bonaparte in rue Chantereine 2 and then in the château de la Malmaison, or the furniture made for the citizen Gaudin, a rich arms dealer, in rue du Faubourg Montmartre 3... We only know of another pedestal table with a mosaic decoration resting on a triangular base finished with claws, identical, stamped Georges Jacob, coming from the house of Beaumarchais, boulevard Saint- Antoine 4. This pedestal table is reproduced in: - Hector Le Fuel, Georges Jacob ébéniste du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1923, Morancé Ed. p.336, pl. XXII. - Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Mobilier Français Consulat et Empire, Paris 2009, Gourcuff Ed., p.33, fig.42. Georges Jacob, a carpenter whose woodwork for seats and beds surpassed that of his contemporaries in quality, evolved towards the forms initiated by the enthusiasm aroused by the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1750s and towards a return to antiquity already in his creations for Queen Marie-Antoinette and the Count of Artois at the Temple and at Bagatelle. He was one of the first to make mahogany seats, inspired by England. The abandonment of the corporations from 1792 allows him to direct his production not only on seats but towards any other kind of furniture in mahogany with inlays of lemon tree, ebony as in the case of the pedestal table which we present and sometimes even of metal of which the tin. His creations, with an architecture always harmonious and elegant, are always of a perfect execution and technique. On April 3, 1796, he handed over his company to two of his sons, Georges II and François-Honoré-Georges, who continued in the line initiated by their father. 1 - Furniture kept at the Louvre Museum (OA 113894 to 11391) 2 - See "L'Hôtel Bonaparte, rue Chantereine", exhibition 15 October 2013 -6 January 2014, the Malmaison museum 3 - "The Empire at Fontainebleau" Osenat Sale 23 March 2014 n°212 and 1 July 2018 n°262 4 - reproduced in Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris 1989, L'amateur Ed, p. 286. EXCEPTIONAL PEDESTAL TABLE SAID TO BE "ANTIQUE" ROUND IN MAHOGANY STAMPED G. IACOB. DIRECTOIRE PERIOD PROVENANCE: MORTEFONTAINE CASTLE, OWNED BY JOSEPH BONAPARTE UNDER THE 1ST EMPIRE
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