Lot 196
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A SET OF SIX RUSSIAN CUT-BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ AND EBONY DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF SIX RUSSIAN CUT-BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ AND EBONY DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF SIX RUSSIAN CUT-BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ AND EBONY DINING CHAIRS
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A SET OF SIX RUSSIAN CUT-BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ AND EBONY DINING CHAIRS

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX RUSSIAN CUT-BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ AND EBONY DINING CHAIRS
MID-19TH CENTURY
Comprising a pair of armchairs and four side chairs, each with latticework toprail with ram’s mask terminals, above a padded back and sprung seat upholstered in silver velvet
Armchairs: 39 in. (99 cm.) high; 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) wide; 20 in. (53. 5 cm.) deep
Side chairs: 37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high; 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918).
Frank Reddaway (1854 - 1953), rubber merchant and industrialist, of Winmarleigh Hall, Near Garstang, Lancashire.
Thence purchased at the sale of the Contents of Winmarleigh Hall (date unknown but the property of Fred Parkes ESQ., J.P. at the time), Lot 60.
By descent.
Sold Bonhams, Chester, 7 July 2011, lot 785.

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Lot Essay

Stylistically these chairs are similar to a suite of ‘Boulle’ style furniture made by Peter Gambs’s workshop in 1840 as depicted in a drawing by Luigi Premazzi in 1852 of the bedchamber of Empress Maria Alexandrovna at the Winter Palace, though it has not been possible to collaborate the provenance that these chairs were once in the Russian Imperial collections.

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