Antique Authentic Russian Winter Troika Hand Painted Lacquer Trinket Box Rare
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Antique Authentic Russian Winter Troika Hand Painted Lacquer Trinket Box Rare:
$149.00
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This is a 100% authentic Russian Troika - The decorative hand painted item is in good condition - look at the photos. Please note that there are specs and wear caused by time. But remember that this is a 100% authentic box not like the newer made now-a-days.
This is a decorative Lacquer trinket box.
Troika (driving)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA troika pulled by horses from the Moscow stud, showing center horse wearinghorse collarandshaft bow, with side horses in breastcollar harnessTraveler in a KibitkabyAleksander Orlowski, an 1819lithograph.The term \"troika\" is sometimes used to refer to any three-horse team harnessed abreast, regardless of harness style or whathorse-drawn vehicleis used.
At full speed a troika can reach 45–50 kilometres per hour (28–31mph), which was a very high speed on land for vehicles in the 17th–19th centuries, making the troika closely associated with the fast ride.
The troika was developed in Russia during the 17th century, first being used for speedy delivering of mail and then having become common by the late 18th century. It was used for travelling in stages where teams of tired horses could be exchanged for fresh animals to transport loads over long distances. Prior to this time, only groups of three or more people could use three horses, and a single person or two people had the right to only drive a single horse or a pair.
During theRussian Empire, the upper classes would use a troika driven by alivery-cladpostilion.[clarification needed]Decorated troikas were popular in major religious celebrations and weddings.
The troika was a part of both urban and rural culture. The horses usually driven in a troika were generally plain and rather small; for example theVyatka horsewas not taller than 14.1hands(57inches, 145cm). However, the wealthy preferred to use the elegantOrlov Trotter.
The first troika competitions were held in theMoscowhippodrome in 1840. The troika was also exhibited at the 1911Festival of Empirein London.
Cultural icon[edit]Troika withwolves, an example ofPalekh miniature.Troika has become acultural icon of Russia, especially after it was featured in a scene ofNikolay Gogol\'s novelDead Souls,[citation needed]where a \"troika-bird\" rides through the vast expanses of Russia (Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you?). Gogol\'s \"troika-bird\" became a literary symbol ofRussia, despite the fact thatChichikov, the person carried by the troika and the protagonist of the novel, was actually a fraudster buying \"dead souls\", i.e. the documents on ownership of the deadserfswhose death was still not registered by population censuses, for his own personal profit. The irony of the \"troika-bird\" of Russia carrying the swindler Chichikov has been discussed inVasily Shukshin\'s short storyStarted style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">History of the Laquer Boxes:
Lacquer boxes were first produced near Fedoskino, a village located on the banks of the Ucha River, just 24 miles north of Moscow. Today,Fedoskinohasapproximately 2,500 inhabitants and supports a thriving art industry that originated over two centuries ago. The original school and guild of Russian lacquer miniature painting was founded in Fedoskino in 1795. Today nearly three hundred artists and scores of highly skilled craftsmen support their families by producing the uniquely beautiful works of art we call Russian lacquer miniatures.
The landscape surrounding the village of Fedoskino is rich with natural beauty to inspire artistic creativity. The velvet green of the pinewoods, the silvery birch copses, and the changing seasons reflected in the waters of the Ucha river - all find their way into the paintings of Fedoskino\'s lacquer miniature artists.
While lacquer painting on wood emerged in Russia in the first half of the 18th century, the unique art of miniature painting of papier-mâché did not take root until 1795 when the techniques for making the papier-mâché articles were brought back to Russia from Germany.
During the late 18th century taking snuff had become very popular in Europe and many workshops were established to fill the demand for decorative snuffboxes. At first snuffing was confined to high society as Tobacco was an expensive imported product. It was natural then, that the early snuff boxes were also made of costly materials such as ivory, gold, silver, gems, and tortoiseshell. As snuff became less expensive and the practice of taking snuff extended to the middle and lower classes, a demand for inexpensive snuff boxes emerged. Several workshops in Europe began to mass produce snuffboxes to fill this demand. Late in the 18th century a Russian merchant named Piotr Korobov visited one of these workshops, the Johann Stobwasser\'s manufactory in Braunschweig, Germany and was impressed by the enterprise that produced good quality items from papier-mâché and lacquer. He quickly understood that he could incorporate the methods and materials used by Stobwasser to mass-produce inexpensive snuffboxes and other items back in Russia where there was a growing market.
With some paints and lacquer purchased from Stobwasser, and several of Stobwasser\'s artists-craftsmen, Korobov returned home to open his own workshop in Danilkovo just outside Fedoskino. His new enterprise employed between twenty and thirty people in the production of simple papier-mâché snuff boxes and varnished peaks for military caps and helmets. The earliest snuff boxes were plain polished lacquer or had cut outs of popular prints glued to the surface of the boxes and lacquered over. Several small competing workshops soon opened and by the early years of the 19th century, the lacquer workshops in Danilkovo and Fedoskino produced approximately 13,000 lacquered papier-mâché articles per year that were sold throughout Europe.
In 1818, control of the Korobov workshop passed to his son-in-law, Piotr Lukutin who expanded production to include tea caddies, album covers,desk accessories, and boxes for many different purposes. Artists began to hand paint intricate decorative motifs on the boxes, and these small paintings became status symbols among the aristocracy and wealthy merchant class. As demand for the lacquered papier-mâché items grew, so did the complexity of design and decoration. Just five years after Lukutin took over, the workshop employed over fifty skilled painters, and a school at the factory was training apprentices.
In 1828 Piotr Lukutin began exhibiting his products at industrial and handcraft fairs in Russia and Europe, winning public acclaim and many awards. It was this same year that Lukutin received the highest honor, a royal edict, allowing him to use the Imperial emblem of the double-headed eagle and his initials as the company trademark. Alexander Lukutin joined his father as factory manager in 1841, and together they transformed a simple craft into a genuine art form through daring innovation in subject-matter and technique.
The main competitor of the Lukutin workshop was the lacquer workshop of Osip Fillipovich Vishnyakov founded in the nearby village of Ostashkovo in the 1780s. Vishnyakov was a former serf freed from the Sheremetev Family Estate. Vishnyakov and his sons produced a variety of papier-mâché lacquer ware items including: snuffboxes, tea boxes, eyeglass cases, matchboxes, and Easter eggs. They sold their wares in Moscow at the various fairs and markets. This workshop flourished into the mid-1800s.
The Vishnyakov and Lukutin workshops were in fierce competition and frequently their paintings depicted similar scenes such as the racing winter troika. Not only were such scenes popular, but some of the artists moved back and forth between the two workshops resulting in stylistic and thematic similarities in they items produced. The lacquer ware produced in this era was not signed by the artist, therefore it is nearly impossible to know who painted a specific piece.
Most of the lacquer miniature paintings from this era were hand rendered reproductions of famous paintings and popular illustrations rather than being original compositions. However, these lacquer miniatures distinguished themselves from the works that inspired them due to the techniques used in their creation and the resulting depth and illumination in the painting. The techniques include the use of a primed papier-mâché surface with a background of metal powder over which several layers of thin oil paint were applied.
In the mid-19th century the Vishnyakov workshop began production of lacquered metal trays. The production of painted metal trays, subsequently, branched into a separate industry centered in Zhostovo.
The Lukutin workshop was finally closed in 1904 and some of the artists transferred to the Vishnyakov workshop. Many of the artists found the working conditions there unacceptable and in 1910 they banded together to form the Fedoskino Artel.
The years of WorldWar I, the Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent civil war took a heavy toll on the craftsmen and artists of Fedoskino andthe lacquer workshops often stood idle as a result of raw material shortages and little demand for finished goods. This situation changed noticeably in the 1920s when Fedoskino lacquer miniatures were displayed at several international exhibitions. The beautiful lacquer paintings were regarded as a unique folk art and were discovered by the international community. Suddenly the work of the Fedoskino miniaturists was desired by collectors outside of Russia and the Russian lacquer miniature became an export commodity.
A group of very gifted painters from among the Vishnyakov miniaturists joined the Fedoskino Artel in 1928. Their skill, especially in painting landscapes, greatly enriched the Fedoskino craft. In order to preserve their art form, the leaders of the Artel realized that it would be necessary to recruit and train new artists for the profession.
In 1933 a vocan the late 1980\'s as the Soviet era was coming to an end, serious changes occurred in the ideology of Russian society and in the political atmosphere. Government restrictions, that formally curbed creative freedom and prevented artists from self-expression, were lifted. At the same time, interest in Russian culture and especially the decorative and applied arts, surged around the world, giving rise to a new market for unique and expensive Russian artifacts such as the lacquer boxes of Fedoskino.(Continue to Fedoskino Today)tional school for miniature painting was opened in order to pass on the skills for creating lacquered miniatures on papier-mâché to younger generations. The school taught drawing and composition as well as the specialized skills required for miniature painting. Students were encouraged to create original compositions, and many of these paintings are the models for some of today\'s popular images.
In the 1960\'s through the 1980\'s, the Fedoskino factory produced many boxes, mostly with Russian peasant scenes and scenes from Russian fairy tales. These boxes were sold in the government \"Beryoshka\" stores and were exported to the world market at relatively low prices in order to acquire hard currency. The factory, like all enterprise in Russia, was under government control resulting in a lack of incentive for creative advancement or technical perfection. The artists found little monetary reward for their efforts and most were content to turn out repetitive popular images. Despite this situation, being a lacquer miniature artist was much perferable to many of the other occupations in the USSR and the Fedoskino School of Miniature Painting had many more applications for entry than it could possibly accept.
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Antique Authentic Russian Winter Troika Hand Painted Lacquer Trinket Box Rare:
$149.00