A SET OF TEN BIEDERMEIER MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS

NORTH GERMAN OR RUSSIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TEN BIEDERMEIER MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
North German or Russian, early 19th Century
Each with curved, rounded tablet toprail, above a pierced back carved withentwined serpents, above the bow-fronted rectangular padded seat covered in yellow cotton, on square tapering legs, the toprails with restorations, one chair distressed (10)

Provenance

Countess Olga Obrescoff and by descent to her grandson
Prince Colonna di Stigliano
Thence by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

The present set of chairs is closely related to a suite of seat-furniture in Pavlovsk Palace, with identical snake-entwined back, which was probably executed around 1805 in the workshop of Heinrich Gambs (1765-1831), after a design by Andrei Voronikhin (1759-1814). (A Chenevière, Russian Furniture, the Golden Age 1780-1840, London, 1988, p. 159, fig 155.)

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