With molded Carrara marble top above a beaded paneled frieze centrally pierced with roundels enclosing paterae on circular stop-fluted legs headed by acanthus and joined by a shaped acanthus-carved stretcher centrally fitted with a domed, piastre-carved acanthus medallion, on toupie feet
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, 68 in. (172.8 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

Acquired from Bernard Steinitz, Paris, 1989.

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Lot Essay

The inventive and elaborate stretcher, the finely carved continuous frieze and the pronounced foliate-carved capitals of the legs of this side table are design elements that are often found on furniture produced in St. Petersburg in the 1780s and 90s and thus suggest that this lot is of Russian manufacture. A similar giltwood side table with comparable legs and frieze is illustrated I. K. Bott, et. al., Русская мебель от петровского барокко до александровского ампира (Russian Furniture from the Petrine Baroque to the Alexandrine Empire), Moscow, 2004, p. 41. For a console table with identical pierced frieze and a side table with comparable legs and stretcher in Pavlovsk Palace, see A. Kuchumov, Russian Decorative Art in the Collection of the Pavlovsk Palace Museum, Leningrad, 1981, figs. 2 and 7, respectively.