with arched, padded back within molded frame crisply carved with twin rose blossoms, summer flowers and guilloche, with padded acanthus-carved scroll arms above incurved supports carved as entwined reeded cornucopiae with crisp floral bouquets; the loose cushion seat within molded ancanthus - carved seat rail, on short cabriole legs haeded by paterae and acanthus, ending in scroll toes; upholstered in floral striped silk.

Duchesse d'enfant brisée (child’s chair), c. 1780

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Georges Jacob, one of the foremost cabinet and chair makers in France in the last quarter of the 1700s, furnished the apartments of the nobility and the royal family of France. This elegant early Neoclassical daybed with its separate ottoman, stamped by Jacob on the frame, was probably commissioned for a child or a very small adult.

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Title
Duchesse d'enfant brisée (child’s chair)
Artist Life
1739–1814
Role
Artist
Accession Number
88.88.2.1
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with arched, padded back within molded frame crisply carved with twin rose blossoms, summer flowers and guilloche, with padded acanthus-carved scroll arms above incurved supports carved as entwined reeded cornucopiae with crisp floral bouquets; the loose cushion seat within molded ancanthus - carved seat rail, on short cabriole legs haeded by paterae and acanthus, ending in scroll toes; upholstered in floral striped silk.