A SET OF THREE FRENCH GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS IN LOUIS XVI STYLE AFTER THE MODEL BY GEORGES JACOB, LATE 19TH CENTURY each with a rectangular padded back and bowed seat, the carved frames with five acorn finials and entwined with flowers and leaves, the seat-rail with intersecting demi-lunes on ribbed leaf wrapped tapering legs (3) PROVENANCE Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916 - 2009) The Trustees of Exbury House CATALOGUE NOTE These chairs are based upon the polychrome painted chairs, part of a suite, made for Marie-Antoinette's Bedchamber at the Petit Trianon, c.1787, illustrated by D. Mayer, Versailles, Furniture of the Royal Palace, 17th & 18th centuries, vol. I.2002, p.278.