World Treasures: Important Russian, Asian, European & American Works
November 19th & 20th, 2013
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Day One - Lots 1-490G
Day Two - Lots 491-936


 
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LOT 242
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Lot 242
A GROUP OF EIGHT FINELY PRESERVED RUSSIAN CARVED AND POLYCHROME KUSTAR WOOD TOY FIGURES, SERGIEV POSAD, CIRCA 1925. Each carved in full round and colorfully painted representing the costumes of various Russian geographical regions and some with early Soviet "Made in Soviet Union" stamp, others inscribed Russia. Each in an excellent state of original condition. Each approximately 7.75 inches (19.7 cm).
Estimate:  $250 - 500  
Price Realized: $2,500.00

Comparison:
See, Yevgenia Petrova, Russian Folk Toys, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian, Palace Edition Press, 2002, pages 77 -88 which illustrated a number of similarly carved and painted figures attributed to Sergiev Posad.

The tradition of carved wooden toys produced in the settlement around the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra (Sergiev Posad) northeast of Moscow dates back to the 18th century and reached its peak of notoriety at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. In the early Soviet period, the time from which the examples in the offered lot were produced, very little changed from those produced in the late Imperial period. Like toys of every generation, because they were played with and in particular if the materials were less resilient to the vagaries of time, few good examples of toys from this period exist.


See: Wendy Salmond, Arts & Crafts in Late Imperial Russia, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996, chapter 3 and 5.


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