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

Provenance

Countess Olga Obrescoff and by descent to her grandson Prince Colonna di Stigliano
Thence by descent until sold at Christie's South Kensington, 11 May 2000, Lot 129

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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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