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Lot Essay
With its kidney-shaped crossbanded top with flowering urn, lyre-inspired supports and thuya stretcher with radiating motif, this elegant table is most closely related to that in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, ill. in From Peter the Great's Baroque style to Alexander Ist's Empire style [translated from the Russian], Moscow, 2004, p.150 (and reproduced here).
Further related examples include a table executed by St Petersburg cabinet-maker Nikifor Vasilyev, now at Kuskovo Palace (today the Russian State Museum of Ceramics) in Moscow (ill.Ibid, p. 142), another table featuring a closely related marquetry in the Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. (ill. in A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, The Golden Age 1780-1840, London, 1988, p.41, fig.25) and another, originally made in St. Petersburg for the Hermitage and now in the Chinese Palace Museum, Lomonosov (ill. The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia, Moscow 1989, ill. 115 and p. 177).
A table featuring a closely related marquetry top, formerly in the collection of The Earls Poulett, Hinton St. George, Somerset, was sold Christie's, London, 16 November 2000, lot 29 (£15,625).
Further related examples include a table executed by St Petersburg cabinet-maker Nikifor Vasilyev, now at Kuskovo Palace (today the Russian State Museum of Ceramics) in Moscow (ill.Ibid, p. 142), another table featuring a closely related marquetry in the Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. (ill. in A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, The Golden Age 1780-1840, London, 1988, p.41, fig.25) and another, originally made in St. Petersburg for the Hermitage and now in the Chinese Palace Museum, Lomonosov (ill. The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia, Moscow 1989, ill. 115 and p. 177).
A table featuring a closely related marquetry top, formerly in the collection of The Earls Poulett, Hinton St. George, Somerset, was sold Christie's, London, 16 November 2000, lot 29 (£15,625).