A SUITE OF RUSSIAN KARELIAN-BIRCH SEAT FURNITURE, comprising a canapé, four small bergères and a pair of larger bergères, each with scrolled arched toprail above a concave-fronted back and drop-in seat covered in green and copper striped material, on sabre legs, restorations, one of the small bergères with printed Cyrillic label which translates as From the house of lady-in-waiting Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Stanitskaya, first half 19th Century

Various Properties

Details

A SUITE OF RUSSIAN KARELIAN-BIRCH SEAT FURNITURE, comprising a canapé, four small bergères and a pair of larger bergères, each with scrolled arched toprail above a concave-fronted back and drop-in seat covered in green and copper striped material, on sabre legs, restorations, one of the small bergères with printed Cyrillic label which translates as From the house of lady-in-waiting Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Stanitskaya, first half 19th Century
the canapé 56in. (142.5cm.) wide (7)

Provenance

Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Stanitskaya, Moscow

Literature

E.A. Bartenev and V.N. Batashkov, Russian Interior Decoration in the Nineteenth Century, Moscow, 1984, p. 102, fig. 89, one chair illustrated in situ in the Stanitskaya house

Lot Essay

Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Stanitskaya's palace was built circa 1800 by the architect A.G. Grigoriev. At present it is the Tolstoy Museum.
A set of seat-furniture of a very closely-related model 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.. Another set, of the Hermitage model, was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 8 March 1992, lot 65.
A demonstration of the international popularity of this winged design is provided by plate 26 in Thomas Sheraton's Designs for Household Furniture, London, 1801.

More from Continental Furniture

View All