Russian 19C antique handpainted lacquer box humidor casket tea caddy Troyka ^Sale

Casket "Winter Troika" – is rare and genuine humidor box or tea caddy hand painted in fine manner.
Size is 12,9 cm long (app. 5,1 inches) 8,1 cm (app. 3,2 inches) high and 7,2 cm (app. 2,8 inches) wide. Comes from collection. Good. Wear, needs removal of old yellowish outer varnish layer. Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight measure some 1 kg packed for shipment.
Russia, Moscow district, presumably by Vishnyakov workshops. Papier mache; painting, gilding, varnish. In the Moscow region, the main lacquer manufactures were the workshops of the Vishnyakov family, located near Fedoskino in the villages of Ostashkovo and Sorokino, where the former serf peasant Count N. P. Sheremetev F.N. Vishnyakov at the end of the XVIII century began the production of lacquer boxes, snuff boxes and trays. At the beginning of the 19th century, his brothers Taras and Egor also worked in workshops. F.N. Vishnyakov took an active part in manufactory exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The most successful in the work was Osip (Joseph) Filippovich Vishnyakov. The heyday came in the middle of the XIX century, in 1870-1880. He repeatedly participated in manufactory exhibitions, where he was awarded gold and silver medals.