BOX WITH TROIKA SCENE
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Black lacquer box has detachable lid, which does not fit well. Lid of box is poorly made with cracks where red lacquer meets black. Painting on top of a troika being driven by a young man appears elaborate and detailed. Under a loop the dots of a printed medium are revealed.
- Object name:
- BOX WITH TROIKA SCENE
- Made from:
- Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- chromolithography on paper
- Made in:
- USSR: Leningrad
- Date made:
- 20th c.
- Size:
- 9.5 x 14.3 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 35.55.1-2
- Class:
- LACQUER
- Signature marks:
- MARK fake Palekh, A. Galkin
- Credit line:
- Gift of Maxine R. Mennen, 1991