Jacob Desmalter - Pair Of Empire Mahogany Armchairs - Stamped And Labeled Chateau

Pair of Empire lounge chairs in mahogany and mahogany veneer. Model with straight back, palmette armrest and baluster legs. Our armchair is richly covered with a green and tobacco yellow silk decorated with large rosettes and stars (Tassinari and Chatel. End of the Empire period, beginning of the 19th century, 1810s. Stamp of Jacob Desmalter and Co. JACOB. DR MESLEE, used between 1803 and 1813. Each seat bears a handwritten label of Provenance below: "Monsieur Fin Chateau de G...au, Grand salon" The Jacob dynasty is probably the most prestigious of French carpenters and cabinetmakers of the late 18th century and early 19th century, with immense success as a supplier in particular to the Imperial Furniture Warehouse (as well as that of the Crown before and after the Empire). The seats coming out of Jacob's workshop are recognizable, in particular, by the very high quality of their execution, the always perfect proportions and a great originality in the creation of new shapes and models. It is interesting when analyzing the production of the Jacobs to note that the models of seats coming out from this prestigious workshop are very often a combination of decorative motifs, shapes of feet, armrests, armrest-belt-back connections that are found from one piece of living room furniture to another, thus ensuring the client a unique model, while allowing productivity gains to the Jacob workshop which hired up to 350 workers under the Empire. Our armchairs are for example of a very close model almost identical to an armchair that we sell (with the same fabric) but which is stamped .IACOB (Georges-Alphonse Jacob known as Jacob-Desmalter, used between 1813 and 1825), and which bears the marks of the Chateau d'Eu for the Duke of Orleans, future King Louis-Philippe. https://www.gslr-antiques.com/fr/boutique/sieges/fauteuil-royal-jacob-chateau-eu.php Excellent condition, armchair completely restored to new, completely dismantled, reassembled, revarnished with a French polish, reupholstered and re-covered with Empire silk (Lelièvre). Width 60cm Height 93cm Seat height 42cm Depth 55cm