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| Pietra Dura Table Carl Johan Tegelstein, 1844 The Royal Collection |
Recently, a similar table by the same artist from The Winter Palace sold at auction for £916,000 (about $1.4 million). The top of that table is pictured below.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Her Majesty’s Furniture: A Russian Pietra Dura Table, 1844
Recently, a similar table by the same artist from The Winter Palace sold at auction for £916,000 (about $1.4 million). The top of that table is pictured below.
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An interesting peice, but some of the very best work of this sort was done in Florence at end of 1700s. Artists there specialised in creating immensely complicated pictures, with the colours (even tiny variations in colours, such as the folds on a coat) made from different semi-precious stones. Nice to see the art continued into the 1800s.
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