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Straw-marquetry wall picture, floral bouquet (roses)
Object/Artifact
Decorative wall panel worked in straw marquetry (straw inlay/appliqué). On a dark maroon-brown textile-covered board, a vertical bouquet of three open roses with stems and serrated foliage is rendered in pieces of split, flattened, golden-toned straw; the natural sheen and directional grain of the straw create highlight and modeling, and the leaves carry darker incised veining. The composition is framed by a printed gold double-line border. The reverse is a toned paperboard backing bearing a printed paper label, "MADE IN USSR / ART. СГЗ-66 «А»," with remnants of a hanging fitting (fibrous loop and adhesive residue) near the upper center.
2025.11.61
2025.11
Purchase
Maker: Unidentified Soviet export producer; article code "СГЗ-66 «А»." Date: Soviet-era (USSR; pre-1991). Circa 1960s–1980s (tentative, by type). In range as a USSR product; exact year unconfirmed (the "66" is an article number, not a date). Place of Origin: USSR (export-marked "MADE IN USSR"). Straw-marquetry of this kind is strongly associated with Belarus/the Belorussian SSR, though the label does not specify a republic (tentative).
Printed reverse label "MADE IN USSR / ART. СГЗ-66 «А»."
Materials: Natural straw (likely rye or wheat) for the inlay; textile ground (dark cotton twill) over board; paperboard backing; adhesive; printed metallic-gold border ink; paper label. Technique: Straw marquetry/appliqué — straw stalks split, flattened/ironed, cut to shape, and glued to the fabric ground; incised veining; machine-printed border; paper-label marking.
Fair
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
A Soviet decorative straw-marquetry picture made for export ("MADE IN USSR" in English), of a folk-craft type (соломка / straw inlay) widely produced in the USSR — particularly Belarus — and sold through the Soviet export trade.