A RUSSIAN NEOCLASSIC MAHOGANY BERGERE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN NEOCLASSIC MAHOGANY BERGERE
Early 19th Century
The backscrolled crest rail on upswept heavily feather-carved wing-form arms, the lower back acanthus wrapped, on a plain square seat above eagle monopodia feet with back spread wings, unupholstered, with traces of ebonizing

Lot Essay

A Russian bergere based on a design by A.N. Voronichin displaying related spread wing arm-rests is in the Pavlovskij Palace Museum and is illustrated in H. Molesworth, Three Centuries of Furniture in Color, Milan, 1969, p. 236, fig. 389.

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