Lot Essay
The two collection labels refer to Olga Nikolaievna's house in Stuttgart, Villa Berg (O.N. VILLA) and Herzogin Vera von Württemberg, Grossfürstin von Russland (H.V.v.W. G.v.R.).
The Property of a European Princely Family
A pair of French ormolu-mounted, porcelain-and scagiola-inset marble, tulipwood, marquetry and part-ebonised meubles d'appui
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A pair of French ormolu-mounted, porcelain-and scagiola-inset marble, tulipwood, marquetry and part-ebonised meubles d'appui
Third quarter 19th Century
Each with a white marble eared top, above a frieze decorated with floral marquetry, above a door centred with an oval pietra dura panel with verde antico outer moulding showing a bouquet of pink roses on one cabinet and a bouquet of yellow roses on the other, flanked to either side by rounded uprights decorated with further floral marquetry panels, above a shaped plinth and block bracket feet with flowerhead mounts, both with remains of a paper label printed O.N. VILLA to the caracass, and each with a label to the inside of each door, printed H.V.v.W G.v.R. Privat Eigentum No. and in ink numbered 1606 to the cabinet with a yellow rose panel, and 1607 to the other with pink roses
Each: 33½ in. (85.1 cm.) wide; 44¼ in. (104.7 cm.) high; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Third quarter 19th Century
Each with a white marble eared top, above a frieze decorated with floral marquetry, above a door centred with an oval pietra dura panel with verde antico outer moulding showing a bouquet of pink roses on one cabinet and a bouquet of yellow roses on the other, flanked to either side by rounded uprights decorated with further floral marquetry panels, above a shaped plinth and block bracket feet with flowerhead mounts, both with remains of a paper label printed O.N. VILLA to the caracass, and each with a label to the inside of each door, printed H.V.v.W G.v.R. Privat Eigentum No. and in ink numbered 1606 to the cabinet with a yellow rose panel, and 1607 to the other with pink roses
Each: 33½ in. (85.1 cm.) wide; 44¼ in. (104.7 cm.) high; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Olga Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Russia and Queen of Württemberg (d. 1892), second daughter of Tsar Nicholas I, Villa Berg, Stuttgart
Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand-daughter of Tsar Nicholas I and Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1912), niece of the above Thence by descent
Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand-daughter of Tsar Nicholas I and Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1912), niece of the above Thence by descent
Sale room notice
The oval inset panels to each door are not pietra dura. The main decoration of the flowers and the foliage appears to be glazed porcelain which has been inset into the marble panel. There are some small foliate leaves which are scagiola.