A late 18th century French Directoire carved mahogany day bed by Georges Jacob The rectangular padded seat with loose squab cushion upholstered in green cut velvet, the sides with baluster turned top-rails above pierced vertical splats carved with radiating fans, on outswept sabre legs, stamped under the seat rail G IACOB, 160cm wide, 60cm deep, 90cm high, seat height 56cm. Georges Jacob (1739-1814), maître in 1765. With their delicate scrolled backs, this bench demonstrate the supremely elegant and refined ‘Etruscan’ style employed by Georges Jacob from the 1780s. Among the most celebrated seat-furniture executed in these years are the chairs he supplied to Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet in 1787.