A PAIR OF RUSSIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND GREEN-DECORATED MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND GREEN-DECORATED MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with a square back centered by a crossed flute and tambourine splat above a padded seat upholstered in striped silk on flute-form legs ending in pad feet, each inscribed No. 6, redecorated (2)

Lot Essay

These chairs, with their distinctive tambourine and crossed-fluted backs, relate to similar chairs designed by Luigi Rusca for the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg 1805-6, and which are now in the State Hermitage Museum (see A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, the Golden Age 1780-1840, 1988, p. 180, pls. 181-183). Luigi Rusca (1758-1822) was an accomplished contemporary architect who designed several buildings in the Neoclassic style throughout St. Petersburg, including the Town Hall from 1802-1806, as well as the Horse-Guard Regiment Barracks in 1800 (see J. Schulte, St. Petersburg um 1800, 1990, p. 110, pl. 185).