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SOME BY THE LUKUTIN AND VISHNIAKOV FACTORIES, RUSSIA, 1820-1880s
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A GROUP OF FIVE LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHÉ BOXES AND A TEA-CADDY
SOME BY THE LUKUTIN AND VISHNIAKOV FACTORIES, RUSSIA, 1820-1880s
Four rectangular boxes with hinged covers, including a large writing box finely painted with three young girls on a boat, fortune-telling with floral garlands, one with an Italian landscape after Joseph Vernet on a mother-of-pearl panel, one with a chequered pattern, one undecorated black box; the circular box with a detachable cover and the tea-caddy finely painted with peasants on a troika, some marked
14 5/8 in. (37.5 cm.) wide and smaller
SOME BY THE LUKUTIN AND VISHNIAKOV FACTORIES, RUSSIA, 1820-1880s
Four rectangular boxes with hinged covers, including a large writing box finely painted with three young girls on a boat, fortune-telling with floral garlands, one with an Italian landscape after Joseph Vernet on a mother-of-pearl panel, one with a chequered pattern, one undecorated black box; the circular box with a detachable cover and the tea-caddy finely painted with peasants on a troika, some marked
14 5/8 in. (37.5 cm.) wide and smaller
Literature
The writing box: R. Hare, The Art and Artists of Russia, London, 1965, p. 263, pl. 32.
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