Antique early 20C Russian lacquer hand painted miniature box winter troika ride

Antique early 20C Russian lacquer hand painted miniature box winter troika ride^Sale

$121.00
Regular price ~~$213.00~~

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Vendor: Korobov

Type: Lacquer Box

Description

Beautiful bijou casket produced in Fedoskino and hand painted by anonymous artist in 1920-1930, very good collection’s quality. Comes from a private collection. NB: I am selling very good collection of Russian lacquer miniatures at this session. For better photographs I have added some neutral linen oil over old original varnish and afterwards have removed it. So all boxes have never been restored.
Size app.: 10.5 cm (roughly 4.1 in) long, 7.1 cm (roughly 2.8 in) deep and 3 cm (roughly 1.2 in) high. Wear, losses. for better photographs I have added some neutral linen oil over old original varnish and afterwards have removed it. So all boxes have never been restored. Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual colors may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0.1 kg it is going to measure some 0.25 kg of volume packed for shipment.
Lacquer miniature technique came to Russia in late 18th century, adopted by merchant P. I. Korobov after he organized a visor production in the village of Danilkovo (now part of Fedoskino) that he purchased - lacquered army visors. Three years later, Korobov visited Johann Stobwasser’s factory in Braunschweig, adopted the technology of paper mache (papier-mâché) products there, and started at his factory the production of snuff boxes that were popular at that time, decorated with engravings glued to the lid, sometimes painted and varnished. In the second quarter of the 19th century, snuffboxes, beads, caskets and other products began to be decorated with picturesque miniatures made with oil paints in a classical pictorial manner. Unlike the Western European lacquer miniature that started to decline already in early 19th century – Russian remains in production even nowadays.