Antique troika lacquer box snowy landscape 10x15x10 cm
Antique troika lacquer box with snow landscape 8.5x13x8.5 cm.Antique Russian box in lacquered paper-mâché and scrupulously hand painted, with a superlative attention to detail. On the lid of the box, painted with oil colors, a bucolic scene with a troika is depicted. Two young men and a coachman are on a sleigh pulled by three galloping horses. The figures are made vivid by the contrast with the snow from which only a few bare trees emerge.This kind of scenes from everyday life are typical of Ru...
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Antique troika lacquer box with snow landscape 8.5x13x8.5 cm.Antique Russian box in lacquered paper-mâché and scrupulously hand painted, with a superlative attention to detail. On the lid of the box, painted with oil colors, a bucolic scene with a troika is depicted. Two young men and a coachman are on a sleigh pulled by three galloping horses. The figures are made vivid by the contrast with the snow from which only a few bare trees emerge.This kind of scenes from everyday life are typical of Russian lacquers. With the beginning of the Soviet era, painters of sacred icons were in fact forced to find a new job and many converted to lacquer painters, decorated with subjects of secular life or inspired by fairy tales and tales. This lacquer is a Vishnyakov, one of the best known and most prestigious lacquer producers of the 19th century.The Russian box measures 8.5x13x8.5 cm and is delivered with an appraisal by our expert and export documents.
