Zhostovo painting is an old Russian folk handicraft of painting on metal (tin) trays, which has existed in a village of Zhostovo, Mytishchi District, Moscow Oblast, since 1825, when O.F. Vishnyakov set up a workshop there.
The main motif of the painting is a simply composed flowery bouquet, in which garden and meadow flowers, leaves, buds, and stems are harmonically united. The painting is usually applied on a black background. A classic Zhostovo style involves several floristic compositions, such as “Mountain Ash”, “Currant”, “A Composed Bouquet”, “A Loose Bouquet”, “Circlet of Flowers”, and “Branch in a Corner”. The tray sides are differently decorated, with individual geometrical and flowery ornaments on each piece, which adds to the main theme of the painting. Each Zhostovo tray is hand-painted and has a signature of the author.
The postage stamps feature Zhostove trays of the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum.
In addition to the stamps release Marka joint stock company offers a souvenir pack with the four postage stamps, FDCs with cancellation for Moscow and Zhostovo, Moscow Oblast.
Design: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 22 RUB.
Size of stamp:50×50×70 mm (each block of four), size of sheet: 80×80 mm.
Form of issue: block of four stamps: “Circlet of Flowers” and “Currant” – one value, “Mountain Ash”— two values.
Circulation: 60 thousand blocks of four tamps.
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