The adjustable rectangular green silk panel with an arched top carved with laurels and mounted with an 18th century embroidery panel of a bouquet, the frame carved with leaf tips and standing on dual feet, stamped 'G IACOB' to the underside of frame
42¹⁄₂ in. (108 cm.) high, 26³⁄₄ in. (68 cm.) wide
Georges Jacob, maître in 1765.

The Jacques Garcia Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1990, lot 86.

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The present screen is closely related to several other examples supplied by Jacob for the château de Versailles. These include two screens à châssis of comparable outline, featuring related cresting and resting on similar trestle supports (illustrated in P.Arrizzoli-Clémentel, Versailles, Furniture of the Royal Palace, vol. II, Dijon, 2002, pp.252-5, no. 90 and 91). Such firescreens originally were most often executed en suite with large suites of seat furniture as is the case for the related screen supplied by Jacob for the Chambre à Coucher of Marie-Antoinette at the Petit Trianon circa 1787 (ill. Ibid., vol I, p.280, no.71). A similar firescreen by Jacob and dated circa 1775 was sold as Property from Descendants of Don Mariano Maldonado y Dávalos, 7th Count of Villagonzalo (1851-1901) at Christie's, South Kensington, 30 April 2015, lot 252. A second similar firescreen by Jacob was sold at Christie's, London, 7 July 2011, lot 502.