A Russian marquetry tilt-top table from the 1870s.

Rich marquetry work depicting nature and animal motifs on a Carelian wood ground. Tabletop, column and the three feet base decorated with carved wood ornaments.
Width 75 cm, depth 56 cm, height 73 cm, folded-up total height 106 cm.

Stains under the tabletop and on the leg. Later tilt mechanism. Craquelure.

Provenance

Peterhof.
According to given information, the table was a farewell gift to a Finnish maid when she left her work at Peterhof, St. Petersburg. It passed on within her family, Meurman/Mannermaa, to Sinikka Mannermaa, who in 1956 married the dean Arvi Seppänen. The current owner bought the table from Arvi Seppänen's estate.

In 1882, during the big fire of Oulu, the table is told to have been the only piece saved from the burning home at Torikatu.

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