A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED HUNGARIAN ASH AND MARQUETRY BERGERES

PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED HUNGARIAN ASH AND MARQUETRY BERGERES
Probably 19th Century
The curved back inlaid with C-scrolls and foliate arabesque motifs, the back and seat covered in blue and yellow floral cotton, on scroll supports headed with winged lion heads, with patera and scrolling horns with lotus-leaves to the sides, on paw feet, with indecipherable black writing (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 11 June 1998, lot 111, (£18,400)

Lot Essay

A pair of Russian bergeres with related winged-head lion-monopodiae originally from the collection of Baron and Baroness Berndt Aminoff was sold anonymously, Christie's London, 10 December 1987, lot 111.
See note to lot 123.

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