Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

265 Two lacquered papier-mâché boxes, Fedoskino workshop, Russia, 20th century each oval-shaped, one painted with a portrait of a lady in traditional attire against a mother-of-pearl ground enclosed by a gilt frame, the other painted with a game of durak in progress, with Cyrillic inscriptions, the larger 3,5cm high, 8,8cmwide, 10,2cm deep (2) R6 000 - 8 000 266 Seven lacquered papier-mâché boxes, Palekh workshop, Russia, 20th century each with either a religious or folkloric polychrome image to the cover, with Cyrillic inscriptions, the largest 3,9cm high, 16cmwide, 10cm deep (7) R15 000 - 20 000 267 Five lacquered papier-mâché boxes, Fedoskino workshop, Russia, 20th century each with fairy tale or folkloric polychrome image to the cover, with Cyrillic inscriptions, the largest 2,5cm high, 8,8cmwide, 13cm deep (5) R8 000 - 10 000 265 266 267 60