Zhostovo Painting
Zhostovo painting (Russian: ''Жостовская роспись'') is an old Russian folk handicraft of painting on metal trays, which still exists in a village of Zhostovo in the Moscow Oblast. It appeared in the early 19th century mainly under the influence of the Ural handicraft of flower painting on metal. Subsequent development of the Zhostovo painting handicraft was stylistically related to porcelain and enamel painting techniques, used by factories near Moscow, flower motifs on printed cotton, produced by the Ivanovo factories, and Lukutin miniature (see Fedoskino miniature). History History of Zhostovo and its handicraft dates back to early 18th century, when Ossip Filippovich Vishnyakov opened his workshop in Zhostovo in 1825. The Vishnyakov workshop sold products made from papier-mache including boxes, cigar cases, and trays. 19's century, when in some of Moscows's suburbs and villages of former Troitsk oblast were appeared some workshops for manufacturing paint ...
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1979 CPA 4969
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