Sold for:
$1,280

of a rectangular shape, the hinged cover depicting the three young field workers returning home after a long work day; the young women are depicted carrying scythes, the group is accompanied by a fellow kolkhoznik who is cheering them up by playing his garmon. An ornate gilded border runs around the body of the box, painted crimson interior; length: 17 cm (6 3/4 in.), depth: 8.7 cm (3 1/2 in.), height: 4.3 cm (1 3/4 in.); signed in Cyrillic lower right, inscribed with title and location lower left: dated lower right


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2015-09-26

Archived auctions similar to A SOVIET AGITLAK KEEPSAKE BOX OF UDARNIKI KOLKHOZNIKI S RABOTY, I. PALIKIN, PALEKH, 1938 Down arrow


Sold for:
$25,000

of a rectangular shape with rounded corners, the hinged cover depicting an elaborately illustrated scene at [Reading House], where a Soviet activist is educating the Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2015-02-28


Sold for:
$1,280

LOT NOTES The present lot is an artist`s revision of the subject of a meeting of volispolkom The painting greatly resembles, both in composition and Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2015-09-26


Sold for:
$305,000

A SOVIET AGITLAK GIFT DESK SET WITH ANTI-RELIGIOUS PLAYING CARDS OF PIONEERS REFORMING BABA YAGA AND EVIL SPIRITS, N. ZINOVIEV, PALEKH, 1931 Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2014-10-25


Sold for:
$38,750

on a raised rectangular base, the hinged cover depicting various scenes glorifying the industrial and scientific triumphs of Soviet life and the national hero Nikolai Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2014-10-25


Sold for:
$3,584

of a rectangular shape, the hinged cover depicting an epic scene of the Don Cossacks heading off to join the forces of the Red Army, Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2015-09-26


Sold for:
$1,875

of rectangular shape with rounded corners, the fitted cover depicting an intricately illustrated humorous scene of a lesson at the young naturalists` camp, featuring a Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2017-03-18


Sold for:
$228

of rectangular form; the hinged cover depicting a Gypsy couple at a camp site being approached by a formally dressed gentleman; the couple`s horses and Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2014-10-25


Sold for:
$17,500

LITERATURE: For comparable items, see Soviet Agitational Lacquered Miniature from the Collection of Alexander Dobrovinsky (Moscow: Iskusstvo-XXI Vek, 2011), pages 148 and 325. of a Read more…


Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions

Date:
2015-02-28


Sold for:
$100

Paste-set, Velvet-lined Silver Keepsake Box, lacking visible marks, the dome-topped box set with a number of garnet-colored pastes in a scrolling foliate design, raised on Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2013-03-13


Sold for:
$523

Inlaid Mahogany Keepsake Box, America, mid-19th century, the molded rectangular top inlaid with contrasting and stained woods showing a three-masted vessel, with quilted interior, opens Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2014-08-04