■ ROYAL FURNITURE OF THE EARLY MODERN LOUIS XVI... Lot 1008

■ ROYAL FURNITURE OF THE EARLY MODERN LOUIS XVI BOOK FOR THE COMTESSE OF PROVENCE ESTAMPLE OF GEORGE JACOB, LAST QUARTER OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY Comprising four chairs, a sofa, four armchairs and a toe board, in moulded, sculpted and partially gilded beech wood, the chairs decorated with a frieze of water leaves lined with a string of pearls, the backrest in shovel iron, the belt with a slightly rounded protrusion, the connecting dice centred on a flower, the tapered, fluted and roughened feet of a rush stem, each chair stamped inside the rear crosspiece with a G belt.IACOB and with a trace of the label The sofa, decorated with a frieze of water leaves lined with a string of pearls on the upper crosspiece of the queen's back and flanked by a seed, the armrests decorated with a frieze of piastres and finished in a twist, their crosier console with a fluted and detached baluster column, decorated at the base with lanceolate leaves, the belt with rounded projections, the connecting dice centred on a flower, the tapered, fluted and roughened feet of a rush stem, stamped G.IACOB on the rear crossbar as a belt, with a handwritten label in brown ink inscribed "Petit Salon / M" The armchairs, the queen-sized backrest encircled with a frieze of acanthus leaves and a string of pearls, the armrests with cuffs finished in foliage winding, their console decorated with a frieze of heart grapes applied with a pearl and a large acanthus leaf, the belt slightly protruding rounded decorated in three registers with a row of pearls, water leaves and heart grapes, the connecting dice centred on a flower, the feet tapered, fluted, rimmed with a stem of pearl rush, and surmounted by lanceolate leaves, each of the chairs stamped G.IACOB on the rear crossbar as a belt, two with a trace of a label, one armchair with an illegible handwritten label, one armchair with a handwritten label in brown ink inscribed "Pour la Chambre a / coucher de Madame / A Mon..." (For th