Lot Essay
A set of seat-furniture of closely related form is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg and is illustrated in T. Sokolova, Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage, Leningrad, 1973, nos. 131-132, and in V. Suslov, The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1994, vol. II, p. 846, illus. 763. A further related suite was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 8 March 1992, lot 65 and another, formerly in the collection of Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Stanitskaya, Moscow, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 15 October 1994, lot 190