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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN MAHOGANY PARCEL-GILT AND EBONISED ARMCHAIRS

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2020年07月15日开拍 / 2020年07月13日截止委托

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拍品描述: A PAIR OF RUSSIAN MAHOGANY PARCEL-GILT AND EBONISED ARMCHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO HEINRICH GAMBS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY Each with a deep tablet toprail banded with ebony above a padded panel and drop-in seat covered in crimson and woven gold material with cylindrical arms supported by winged griffin monopodiae with paw-feet, redecorated. Each 38 ? in. (98 cm.) high; 26 ? in. (66.5 cm.) wide This pair of Russian winged griffin monopodiae armchairs is inspired by a French Empire design illustrated in Percier & Fontaine’s Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1812, plates 13 and 15. They are attributed to the German-born cabinet and chair-maker Heinrich Gambs (1765-1831) based on a set of chairs supplied by Gambs to Pavlovsk Palace, outside St. Petersburg, that are of virtually identical form with a corresponding deep tablet toprail banded with ebony, above a padded panel and drop-in seat, with splayed back-legs. The Pavlovsk example has swan-monopodiae front-legs rather than the winged griffin monopodiae of these chairs, and is illustrated in the chambre des Valets in A. Koutchoumov, Pavlovsk Le Palais et le Parc, Leningrad, 1976, p. 198. Gambs began his career in Germany under David Roentgen, but later moved to Russia where he set up a furniture factory after his teacher’s highly successful model. His oeuvre clearly owes much to Roentgen in its combination of mahogany – his timber of choice – and parcel-gilt or gilt-bronze to create a contrasting and harmonious whole, fully demonstrated by these chairs. By 1793, Gambs was a leading figure among the furniture-makers of St. Petersburg, and a particular favourite of Empress Maria Feodorovna, whose patronage enabled him to become the principle supplier for the Imperial residences of Pavlovsk, Tsarkoe Selo, and the Winter Palace. These chairs can also be compared to a pair of console tables seen in a 19th century watercolour of one of the reception rooms of the Anichkov Palace, from 1809-16, the residence of the sister of Alexander I (the offspring of Maria Feodorovna) who commissioned Gambs to supply furniture (Russian Furniture, Moscow, 2004, pp. 108-109). Another set of related chairs is illustrated in a ‘View of a drawing room, St. Petersburg, 1816’, from an unidentified house (A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780-1840, London, 1988, p. 176). These chairs were in the collection of the Aminoff family, Swedish-Finnish nobility of Russian origin, who had close links to the Russian Imperial family (I. Ylonen, ‘The Experience of Impecuniousness in a Noble Family at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, Journal of Finnish Studies, 2017, pp. 167-196). They were one of the highest ranking Swedish-speaking gentry in Finland, being enobled during the Swedish Realm and introduced to the Finnish House of Nobility after it was established in 1816 to 1818. Count Johan Fredrik Gustaf Aminoff (1844-99), a kinsman of Baron Berndt Aminoff (the owner of these chairs after circa 1919), served in almost all the wars that Russia waged in the Caucasus and Turkey in the 1860s and 1870s before entering the Finnish civil service. In addition to salaries, the Tsar granted senior officials extra allowances that took the form of gifts, an example is a Louis XVI gold snuff box executed by Pierre-Innocent Zurich in 1783-84 and presented to Count Aminoff by Alexander I (sold Christie’s Geneva, 19 November 1996, lot 295). A further possibility regarding the acquisition of these chairs is that they were purchased by the Cedercreutz family; Count Johan Aminoff’s wife, Louise Emilia Charlotta Cedercreutz was born and spent her formative years in St. Petersburg, and as one of five daughters, with no male heirs, she inherited a large portion of her family’s furnishings – although not the estate, which was entailed. She spoke both French and Russian, and had a good social network in St. Petersburg, playing a crucial role as a negotiator on behalf of her husband both in military and civil service affairs. Thus, undoubtedly, she was fully conversant with Russian fashionable taste, and the popularity of Gambs’ furniture amid St. Petersburg’s aristocracy.
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