A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE, MARQUETRY AND PENWORK OCCASIONAL TABLE

CIRCA 1785

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE, MARQUETRY AND PENWORK OCCASIONAL TABLE
Circa 1785
The crossbanded leather-inset, kidney-shaped top within a three-quarter surround, above two conforming drawers decorated with laurel-leaf swags, the sides and back similarly-decorated, on cabriole legs with seeded acanthus sabots, headed by ribbon-tied acanthus drops, the top of each leg drawn with acanthus, the leather replaced
28in. (73cm.) high, 23in. (58.5cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1992, lot 263.

Lot Essay

With its distinctive husk-swags and rognon form, this table is characteristic of Russian Neoclassic occasional tables in the French taste produced around 1785. A closely related table, but with a floral marquetry top remains in the collections of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg and is illustrated in Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage, Leningrad, 1973, figs. 82-3. A further related table, probably supplied to Catherine II (d.1796) for Tsarske Seloe and retaining the mid-19th Century Inventory label for the Palace of Tsarske Seloe was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 9 June 1994, lot 121.

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