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Ebony workshops of Okhta near St. Petersburg

Table en rognon – Kidney-shaped lady's writing desk. Circa 1775/80

Mahogany, solid and veneered onto pinewood; marquetry of palisander, ebony, coloured sycamore; ivory; bronze mountings and brass plate, gilt. 77,5 × 52,5 × 38 cm (30 ½ × 20 ⅝ × 15 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ebony workshops of Okhta near St. Petersburg. Table en rognon – Kidney-shaped lady's writing desk. Circa 1775/80.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 18,000

USD 16,000

 

- 19,200

Sold for:

20,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

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Mahogany, solid and veneered onto pinewood; marquetry of palisander, ebony, coloured sycamore; ivory; bronze mountings and brass plate, gilt. 77,5 × 52,5 × 38 cm (30 ½ × 20 ⅝ × 15 in.). On the plate the initials: FDCS / WP.

Comparable object: Nikifor Vasilyev: Table with the castle and garden Kuskovo near Moscow, 1770/80, Kuskovo Estate Museum, Moscow

Related litertaure: J. W. Fomin: The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia. Moscow, 1989, cat. no. 122, 129.

Possibly from the collection of Varvara Petrovna Razumovski (1750–1824), daughter of Count Pyotr Borisovich Sheremetev (1713–1788) / 2005 private collection, England / 2005–12 private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Auktion: English and Continental Furniture. London, Sotheby's, 29 June 2005, cat. no. 337 / Esch Kunsthandel (ed.): Aus Bestand und Neuerwerbungen. Düsseldorf, 2007, p. 32f

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