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"Tale about Sleeping Tsarevna"
 Stock #: 803211 Artist: Bogacheva
Palekh
Size: 3 1/4" X 2 3/8" X 1"  Reg.$ 138.00
Your price: $ 69

The box is signed by the artist and comes with the Certificate of Authenticity.

 

This fabulous hand-made creation sparkles with beautiful gold details and patterns and shines with rich range of colors. A charming illustration to a well-known tale written by A. Pushkin, that tells about a happy return of Tsarevna and her prince charming after the evil magic of her stepmother was ruined by true love. This fairy tale echoes with the world known tale "Snowwhite and 7 Dwarfs".

Lacquer boxes from Palekh might well enjoy the highest world-wide acclaim. The lacquer art of Palekh has been called "a small miracle", a label particularly fitting since that the village specialized in icon-painting for centuries until the 1917 Russian revolution. To many collectors, Palekh boxes have the most elegant look to them. When you hold one in your hand, you know you are holding something truly special. Most often in Palekh works, innumerable fine lines of gold leaf, polished to a glow by a wolf's tooth, are applied to the ornamental border and drawing itself. A simple one-color background then provides a beautiful contrast to the gold leaf and scene itself. This background, usually black, also serves to take the observer into a new world where one's concept of time and space is left to the imagination.

 

 

 

 

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