Rare early 19c russian antique handpainted lacquer box greybeard ^Sale

With reading greybeard. Manufacture of merchant Korobov, Fedoskino, established in 1795. Comes from a private collection.

Size app.: 8,9 cm (roughly 3,4 in) diameter, 1,8 cm (roughly 0,7 in) high. Very good, chips, age n usage wear. Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual item may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0.045 kg it is going to measure some 0.25 kg of volume packed for shipment.

The emergence of papier-mâché production: The first half of the 19th century was a period of extensive development of lacquer production in Russia. One of the first and largest was the free tobacco factory of the merchant of the first guild P.I. Korobov in the village of Danilkovo (now part of the village of Fedoskino), founded in 1795. The main indicator of the quality of products was the lacquer surface, the preparation technology of which was purchased from the largest manufacturer of that time Johann Stobwasser (Braunschweig, Germany). With the entry into the business of his son-in-law P. V. Lukutin, the factory began to develop rapidly. Already in the first quarter of the 19th century, the factory employed more than forty civilians and produced over thirteen thousand items a year. Along with pasted engravings, snuff boxes, beads, caskets and other items began to be decorated with pictorial miniatures, made with oil paints in a classical painting manner. Among the painters who worked at the factory, the names of Lavrov and Borodkin are mentioned.