A suite of carved giltwood seat furniture 19th century

after the model by Georges Jacob, comprising a set of four armchairs and a canapé, all with 19th century Aubusson tapestry upholstery, woven with pastoral figures, some playing musical instruments, on the backs, and baskets of flowers or musical instruments depicted on the seats, all panels within foliate and floral surrounds on eau-de-nil ground, edged with narrow guilloche braid

Good overall condition. Characteristic wear and minor losses to gilding. Some arm caps worn through and threadbare in small areas. Tapestry colours to canapé faded and with wear. Some of seats with wear to front seat edge, and one in particular has lost warp threads and the warp threads are visible and the wear has resulted in splits, the underlining is visible, and this are needs consolidation. Tapestry to padded arms, woven with flowering sprigs, is generally worn at front edges.
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Comparative Literature:
Bill G.B.Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. 2, Dijon, 1993, p. 167, no. 58 (inv. OA 9449 A & B).
This finely carved suite with interlaced frames is, with some variations, after an important Royal model by Georges Jacob (1739-1814). In 1787, Jacob delivered a magnificent suite of seat furniture to the Château de Saint Cloud which was designed to furnish the salon des jeux du Roi, an armchair of which is illustrated by Pallot, op. cit., p. 167. 
Eighteenth century chairs of this model were also supplied by Jacob to the comte de Vaudreuil and also, circa 1788, another pair of fauteuils with the entrelac frame were supplied by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV for one of the bedrooms at Carlton House, the London Palace he decorated in the latest French taste. According to the Pallot, op. cit., , `The Saint-Cloud furniture had a huge impact at the end of the 18th century, but also throughout the 19th century, many important furniture makers copied or made pastiches of these models'.