Center table, ca. 1780–85, Russian, Tula, Steel, silver, gilt copper, gilt brass, basswood; replaced mirror glass, 27 1/2 × 22

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Center table, ca. 1780–85, Russian, Tula, Steel, silver, gilt copper, gilt brass, basswood; replaced mirror glass, 27 1/2 × 22 × 15 in. ( × × cm), Metalwork-Steel, From 1712, when the imperial armory in the town of Tula, south of Moscow, was founded by Peter the Great (r. 1682–1725), the master armorers regularly enjoyed imperial During the reign of Empress Elizabeth (1741–61), they began to produce a sideline of cut-steel decorative items and furniture now known as Tula ware

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