AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MALACHITE CENTRE-TABLE

POSSIBLY RUSSIAN

细节

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MALACHITE CENTRE-TABLE
Possibly Russian
The circular top set in a frieze border with bacchic masks flanked by sphinxes, on three S-shaped supports headed by bursts of Nike and joined by a circular undertier and terminating in paw feet and castors, repairs to the malachite
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) diam.

拍品专文

A closely related malachite and ormolu gueridon with incurved female caryatid supports and an undertier is visible in a 1867 watercolour of the Green Saloon of the Lusupov Palace, St. Petersburg, illustrated in V.B. Semyanov, Malachite, Sverdlovsk, 1987, vol I, p. 103, fig.5.