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TABLE FROM A SET OF NESTING TABLES

Creator(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Nabokov (Designer) , Nikolai Fedorovich Svirsky (Cabinet Maker)

On view in: Pavilion


About this object

Tops are elaborately inlaid with leaf scrolls in various colored woods. In the center of each is an elaborate cipher surmounted by the Imperial cleft crown. The larger table has free variation of MF in Cyrillic for Empress Maria Fedorovna. Legs carved in the Russian style with a scrolling ornament descend to feet set at an angle. A cross rail and extensions to the foot provide additional support to the legs. Carved rosettes decorate the junctions of these parts.

Object name:
TABLE FROM A SET OF NESTING TABLES
Made from:
Wood
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
1882
Size:
H. 26 11/16 in., W. 25 3/4 in., D. 16 1/4 in.

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
32.23.3
Class:
FURNITURE
Signature marks:
MONOGRAM Crowned M F in Cyrillic for Maria Fedorovna [On table top]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973