Lacquer Box (c. 1890): Art, History and Details

Lacquer Box (c. 1890) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918); Factory N. Lukutin (Russian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This lacquer box was created by the Lukutin Factory, which was well known for creating boxes such as this one after Piotr Lukutin took charge of production and expanded the factory to include tea caddies and various desk accessories. This particular box from the Lukutin workshop is remarkable in its detailed gold patterns and diamond inlays that create an intentional contrast with the deep red surface.

Object facts

• Title: Lacquer Box
• Date: c. 1890
• Creator attribution: House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918); Factory N. Lukutin (Russian)
• Culture: Russia, St. Petersburg
• Type: Miscellaneous
• Technique: lacquer, papier-mâché, gold, diamonds
• Dimensions: Overall: 1.8 x 14.5 x 5 cm (11/16 x 5 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1966.464

A detail from the museum

Piotr Lukutin’s workshop employed over 50 skilled painters as well as acted as a school for training apprentices.

Collection credit

The India Early Minshall Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Hawley, Henry H. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
• Habsburg, Géza von, and David Park Curry. Fabergé in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.