PROBABLY RUSSIAN, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CARD TABLE
PROBABLY RUSSIAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
The top depicting a tented settlement within a landscape setting, enclosing a green baize playing surface, the border similarly inlaid with marquetry rural lanscape scenes using various specimen woods including tulip, birch, stained beech and satinwood
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The inlay on this card-table featuring rustic landscapes realtes to that found on some late 18th century Russian tables illustrated in The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia, Sovietskaya Rossia Publishers, 1989.

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