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Zhostovo is a major Russian folk art center world famous for its painted trays decorated with bright bunches of flowers on the black background.

Its founder Osip Vishnyakov opened a workshop of tray painted decoration in 1825. The painters accumulated certain traditions of floral ornament and still life painting. They reproduce beauty of nature and convey a sense of joy of life.

There are different shapes of trays: octahedral, rectangular, round, oval, figured and winged.