A RUSSIAN DECALCOMANIA GLASS AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE

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A RUSSIAN DECALCOMANIA GLASS AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Decorated with chinoiserie scenes on a green background, the rectangular top with shaped cartouche enclosing a female figure in a medallion, surmounted by a coronet and with various military trophies, flanked by dragons, within two wreaths of flowers and shields to the spandrels, the beaded edge above a shallow frieze with beaded bands and floral trails, on square tapering legs with trailing foliage surmounted by panels of chinoiserie figures and joined by an acanthus-wrapped X-shaped stretcher with central pierced basket and vase painted with further chinoiserie figures, on brass castors, restorations to the gilding and paint, various glass panels cracked
22in. (56cm.) wide; 29in. (74cm.) high; 14¼in. (36 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A centre table of related shape and using verre églomisé panels to the top and sides of circa 1790, attributed to the workshop of Heinrich Gambs and Jonathan Ott is in the Pavlovsk Palace Museum and illustrated in A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, London, 1988, p. 104, illus. 85, and in E. Ducamp ed., Pavlovsk, Paris, 1993, p. 107, illus. 13

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