7: Russian Furniture of the Epoch of Historicism

Chair and table in the "Louis XVI style"

Early 1900s

The F. Melzer company

St Petersburg

Table: 72x67x67 cm
Chair: 87x54x38 cm

Wood, silk velvet; lacquering, carving, gilding

The table and chair belong to a set produced by the St Petersburg Melzer factory for one of the rooms occupied by the imperial family in the Winter Palace. Items of this sort in the "Louis XVI style" covered with ivory-coloured French lacquer, set off with a slight amount of gilding, were very popular with high-born customers.