Details
A RUSSIAN NEO-CLASSIC MAPLE SETTEE
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With rectangular arched back surmounted by a plume flanked by tapering wings ending in roundels, with bold scroll arms ending in paterae, with rectangular padded seat above a plain rail, on sabre legs (restorations)-74in. (183cm.) wide
A karelian birch bed with related carved crest, circa 1820, is illustrated in A. Kuchumov, Household Interior Decoration in Nineteenth Century Russia, 1977, fig. 39.
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With rectangular arched back surmounted by a plume flanked by tapering wings ending in roundels, with bold scroll arms ending in paterae, with rectangular padded seat above a plain rail, on sabre legs (restorations)-74in. (183cm.) wide
A karelian birch bed with related carved crest, circa 1820, is illustrated in A. Kuchumov, Household Interior Decoration in Nineteenth Century Russia, 1977, fig. 39.
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 4 February, 1989, lot 78