Lot 86
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A SET OF FOUR RUSSIAN ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
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A SET OF FOUR RUSSIAN ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR RUSSIAN ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
Second quarter 19th Century
Each with profusely leaf-carved and scrolled toprail above a conforming horizontal splat centred by a cartouche enclosing a panel covered in yellow cross-hatched silk, between chanelled uprights and above a padded drop-in seat, on sabre legs, the front legs chanelled and headed by eagle's heads, scrolls and carved foliage, regilt, three stamped '6', one stamped '4', one chair with back legs spliced at the bottom (4)
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Lot Essay

This set of richly-carved Russian chairs demonstrates the opulant Palace style of the 1820s and '30s, and relates to seat-furniture in several palaces in and around St. Petersburg and Moscow, including the Catherine Palace, Pushkin, the Hermitage, but also in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki (A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, the Golden Age 1780-1840, London, 1988, pp. 195-239).

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