CARRIAGE. VIENNA, 1740

EXPOSITION
HALL 1. RUSSIAN GOLD- AND SILVERWARE OF THE 12TH - EARLY 17TH CENTURY
HALL 2. RUSSIAN GOLD- AND SILVERWARE OF THE 17TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY
HALL 3. EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL CEREMONIAL ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE 15TH - 19TH CENTURIES
HALL 4. RUSSIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE 12TH - EARLY 19TH CENTURY
HALL 5. WEST EUROPEAN SILVER OF THE 13TH - 19TH CENTURIES
HALL 6. ECCLESIASTICAL ATTIRE, PICTORIAL AND ORNAMENTAL EMBROIDERY OF THE 14TH - 18TH CENTURIES. RUSSIAN ROYAL GARMENT IN THE 16TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY
HALL 7. ANCIENT STATE REGALIA AND CEREMONIAL ITEMS OF THE 13TH - 18TH CENTURIES
HALL 8. CEREMONIAL HORSE HARNESS OF THE 16TH - 18TH CENTURIES
HALL 9. ROYAL CARRIAGES OF THE 16TH - 18TH CENTURIES

One of the many ceremonial equipages of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, the carriage is executed on demand of the Russian court in 1740 in Vienna. Unbelievable splendour was always a characteristic of the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna’s court, as well as ceremonial carriages were ordered from the best European craftsmen.

Features of the graceful Rococo style are distinguished in the form and decoration of the two-seater carriage. Its body narrows from top-down. Windows and doors are completed with mirror glass. Carved allegoric figures and painted images of nymphs, tritons and cupids are very skillfully executed. A copper crown on tops decorates the carriage.