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Pair of vases and columns
late eighteenth centuryRCIN 35444
In 1816, Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (1773–1828) encouraged Louis Carbonelle, a collaborator of Thomire, to encourage London society to purchase gilt-bronze mounted malachite furnishings. A similar pair, now at Versailles, were given by Alexander I to Napoleon I, and a further pair furnish the Malachite Room of the Winter Palace.