11th Jun, 2025 10:00
Country House Sale
277
Collection of small painted lacquered boxes
Eastern European and Asian, late 20th Century; each box black ground; to include a rectangular form box, painted with various animals, to include deer, a wolf and a fox; a rectangular form box painted with a Russian icon of the Madonna and Child; a shaped box painted with a Russian Orthodox Church; a square form box painted with a squirrel amongst foliage; together with a Russian doll (11)
Note: Similar examples featured in Racine Art Museum's exhibition 'New Gifts to the Collection: Russian Lacquer Boxes', November 20, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Collection of small painted lacquered boxes
Eastern European and Asian, late 20th Century; each box black ground; to include a rectangular form box, painted with various animals, to include deer, a wolf and a fox; a rectangular form box painted with a Russian icon of the Madonna and Child; a shaped box painted with a Russian Orthodox Church; a square form box painted with a squirrel amongst foliage; together with a Russian doll (11)
Note: Similar examples featured in Racine Art Museum's exhibition 'New Gifts to the Collection: Russian Lacquer Boxes', November 20, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Signs of wear consistent with age and use. One box with evidence of an old sticker to the interior. Both circular boxes have losses to the lacquer/flaking and crazing.
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Auction: Country House Sale, 11th Jun, 2025
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