a rare and important russian silver side table, grachev, st. petersburg, 1884

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

length 44.5 in. 113 cm

in Louis XVI style, the sides applied with panels of ribbonwork enclosing flowerheads, the front with the Imperial eagle, the tapering legs applied with foliage pendant from ribbon-bows and applied at each corner with warrior heads and trophies of arms in the Old Russian style, workmaster Johan Ferdinand Olsonius, later malachite top

Provenance

Sold, Christies, Geneva, November 10th, 1976, lot 30

Literature

Christies Review of the Season, Studio Vista, London, 1977, p. 305