A RUSSIAN KARELIAN-BIRCH AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE, the canted rectangular top above a plain frieze with two drawers, on foliate-headed turned tapering legs with gadrooned feet, the shaped concave-fronted rectangular stretcher surmounted by a domed plinth and scrolled lyre, one drawer inscribed in Cyrillic the country house near Moscow called Bratzevo belonging to Prince Shcherbatov, with similar pencil inscription, restorations, early 19th Century

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A RUSSIAN KARELIAN-BIRCH AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE, the canted rectangular top above a plain frieze with two drawers, on foliate-headed turned tapering legs with gadrooned feet, the shaped concave-fronted rectangular stretcher surmounted by a domed plinth and scrolled lyre, one drawer inscribed in Cyrillic the country house near Moscow called Bratzevo belonging to Prince Shcherbatov, with similar pencil inscription, restorations, early 19th Century
56in. (142.5cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) deep

Provenance

The Princes Shcherbatov, Bratzevo

Lot Essay

A very similar table, presumably en suite with this one, is illustrated in a late 19th Century photograph of Bratsevo.
The Princes Shcherbatov were descended from Vladimir Sviatoslavich, the Christianiser of Russia. His descendants served the Tsars as boyars and were rewarded with fiefdoms and several other tokens of the monarch's favour.
A near identical table in the Palace of Pavlovsk is illustrated in A. Kuchumov, Household Interior Decoration in 19th Century Russia, Moscow, 1977, figs. 17-18.

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