1900s Monastery Children's Play Set

Product Description

Antique carved toy representation of the monastery at Sergiev Posad. Circa 1890-1910. Wooden toys were made in the Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod regions by professional craftspeople, espcially those connected with the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the largest spiritual and cultural center of Russia. In the 1880s, there were over 300 toy workshops, most of which produced molded toys and wooden carved toys by carpenters and turners. The most famous toy from Sergiev was the matryoshka nesting doll. The number of workshops shrunk over time as cheaper, mass-produced toys were imported. 

30 individual painted pieces, including fences, towers, house, entrance gate, buildings, cupolas, etc. House in a custom storage box with a cameo carving on the top. All pieces and paint is original. No restoration has been done.

Box is 8¼" x 6½" x 4", and pieces range from 4" to ¾" in height. Good to very good condition, box scuffed, hinges fine.

30 pieces inside a box 8¼x6½x4 inches.. Churches, chapels, fences, guard towers, houses, a gate and a trapeza.  4" down to 3/4".