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THE BEAN-TABLE
Height - 75.5 cm, length - 1.003 m, width - 59 cm
Manufactured in Dnepropetrovsk in alone specimen in 1992
by three craftsmen (Matuhin & sons), using a fret-saw.
Plugged wood, engraving, japanning.
In a basis of an article the following materials are included:
1.A pine wood, a beech, a birch.
2.Veneering: a pink wood, a rosewood, a citric wood, a sandal wood, an
amaranth, a red wood, a fumed oak, an oak, a mulberry wood, a brass.
The table is supported by four legs with squared profile.
The legs converge down and have brass tips.
There is one drawer in the side-bar. There is a brass kea-hole in the
center of drawer. The table-top is like a bean. It is framed by figured brass
along perimeter of the table-lid.
The internal field of a table-top is decorated with a set of rhombic grid
a and framed by double tractions.
There is a round locket with a bouquet of flowers in the center of table-top.
The side-bar and legs are pasted over plugged smooth veneering. An endurance
of all kinds of wood present in an article is more than 5 years. A pink wood is
a dominant material in an article.
All wood of black color on an article is a fumed oak. Its black color
speaks about the great age of this material, - not less than 1000.
The intarsia on an article comprises is more than 9 thousand slices of inlay.
The method of sprayed mitre joint, used on the edges of drawer
surface and legs, speaks about complexity of inlay. This intarsia is made
out of 2 mm sawn veneers.
The total time spent by three masters on manufacturing of a product makes about 3168 hours of handicraft.
There are favorite receptions, used by the Russian craftsmen in the
last quarter XVIII of century, on the table.
This article is a subject of a ladies` toilet. It concerns to style
of classicism
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