A RUSSIAN SATINWOOD AND COLOURED MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE crossbanded overall in rosewood, the kidney-shaped top inlaid with scrolling foliate banding and centred by an oval inlaid with an urn, with frieze drawer and on square tapering legs inlaid with panels, with paper label inscribed in ink Eleanor Fuller 16.2.1969 from Mutti, and with Pickford's label inscribed in ink F Friedler, the lower part of the legs replaced

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A RUSSIAN SATINWOOD AND COLOURED MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE crossbanded overall in rosewood, the kidney-shaped top inlaid with scrolling foliate banding and centred by an oval inlaid with an urn, with frieze drawer and on square tapering legs inlaid with panels, with paper label inscribed in ink Eleanor Fuller 16.2.1969 from Mutti, and with Pickford's label inscribed in ink F Friedler, the lower part of the legs replaced
39½in. (100.5cm.) wide; 28½in. (72cm.) high; 23in. (58.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This dressing-table with wreathed medallion of a sacred-urn with acanthus-scrolled folaige relates to tables in the English 'antique' style that were manufactured in Russia in the 1780s (see: A. Cheneviere, Russian Furniture, London, 1988, fig. 25)

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