LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Ormolu-mounted, Patinated-bronze, Malachite and Mahogany
Size Notes:
diameter-54.5 cm
Description:
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Exhibited:
Berlin, The Embassy of the Czech Republic and Cultural Centre, Beauties & Beasts: Making and Collecting Art in Germany, 27-29 April 2018., no. 65.
Literature:
Gores, B, 'Russian Furniture for the Prussian Court: A Present of Imperial Friendship', Apollo, no. 360, February 1992, pp. 88-93. Antoine Chenevière advertisement, Apollo, no. 360, February 1992, p. 1.
Provenance:
Presented by Tsar Alexander I to King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Louise of Prussia in 1803 for the Koniglichen Palais Unter den Linden, Berlin and by descent to their granddaughter Princess Louise of the Netherlands (1828-1871), Queen of Sweden and Norway, circa 1840. With Antoine Chenevière, London, 1992. Thence in a Private European Collection.