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CARL JOHANN TEGELSTEIN (1798-1852)

Table

1844

RCIN 1450

The relief-carved pietra dura top of this table, given by Tsar Nicholas I to the Queen following his state visit in June 1844, was made at Peterhof, the best-known of the imperial stone workshops; Tegelstein’s gilt-bronze base came from Nichols & Plincke, the fashionable ‘English Shop’ in St Petersburg.

Presented to Queen Victoria in 1844

No. 165


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