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Ebony workshops of Okhta near St. Petersburg

Card table from the collection of Empress Catherine II of Russia (1726–1796) – Workshop of Christian Meyer (active 1774–1790s). Circa 1785

Pinewood veneer; rosewood marquetry, boxwood, maple, rosewood, coloured fruitwood; brass fittings. 73,5 × 97,5 × 49 (98) cm (28 ⅞ × 38 ⅜ × 19 ¼ (38 ⅝) in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ebony workshops of Okhta near St. Petersburg. Card table from the collection of Empress Catherine II of Russia (1726–1796) – Workshop of Christian Meyer (active 1774–1790s). Circa 1785.

Estimate:

EUR 35,000

 

- 45,000

USD 43,100

 

- 55,400

Sold for:

60,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2018

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 31.05.2018

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Pinewood veneer; rosewood marquetry, boxwood, maple, rosewood, coloured fruitwood; brass fittings. 73,5 × 97,5 × 49 (98) cm (28 ⅞ × 38 ⅜ × 19 ¼ (38 ⅝) in.). In pencil on the underside of the table: Гоcудаpя N1 [Reference to location in the imperial private apartments of the Winter Palace, before 1850] / stencilled in black colour: И З N 7 [Inventory of the Small Hermitage, 1859, here the location in the Romanov-Gallery] / in red color: И З Д N 34 [Inventory of the Small Hermitage, 1889–1894, here the location in the Romanov-Gallery]. Cloth covering renewed.

Pendants der Werkstatt Christian Meyer: Spieltische, 1780/'90s, Staatliche Hermitage, St. Petersburg, inv. no. Эпр-7380, Эпр-3154, Эпр-5708 and Эпр-1762 (Selection)

Related literature and comparable objects: Auction: 2013 – Kunstwerke aus den Beständen Leningrader Museen and Schlösser. Zweiter Teil. Berlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 4th/5th June 1929, lot.-no. 135 and 152, plate 74 / Juri Wassilewitsch Fomin: The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia. Furniture, Panelling, Flooring. Moscow, 1989, p. 116, ill. 135-137

We would like to thank Tatyana Semenova, curator of the Furniture Department of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, for confirming the provenance by reference to the inventory entries in February 2011.

Imperial Collections, Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (produced for the palace ca.1785), there in the Small Hermitage, Romanov Gallery (traceable from the 1850s until 1894) / State Hermitage, St. Petersburg (sold in the 1920s through the Trade Office of the USSR) / formerly Private Collection, Berlin

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