Live Auction 9376Christie's Interiors
A GILTWOOD CANAPE
Lot 314

A GILTWOOD CANAPE

OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, PROBABLY RUSSIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed3 September 2013

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GBP 687

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A GILTWOOD CANAPE
OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, PROBABLY RUSSIAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Re-covered in yellow silk, with a leaf and foliate carved frame on fluted and guilloche carved legs, with a brass oval inventory label in Cyrilic DPM/978, previously with a central front leg
55¼ in. (141 cm.) wide

By repute the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg.
With Wartski, 14 Grafton Street, London.

Specialist note

This suite was bought by Wartski from the Soviet Government as part of a series of purchases made between 1927 and 1933, since which time it was used to furnish their London premises