Dressing table
c.1817
Workshop of Martin-Guillaume Bienner
Paris, France
Dressing table with a mirror "psyche" - a moving
morror in a frame on hinges - and table top of blue glass was produced
in the workshop of a famous French furniture-maker Martin-Gillaume Bienner
to the design of Charles Persier. The table was executed to the wedding
of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich (future Emperor Nicholas I) in 1817.
Originally it was kept in the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg,
than in summer palace in Ropsha. In the Hermitage since the second half
of 19th century.
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