A Russian Fedoskino lacquer box of rectangular form with rounded corners, constructed from hand-painted papier-mâché. The hinged lid features a detailed miniature painting after Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky’s ‘Morning in a Pine Forest’, depicting a mother bear and three cubs among fallen pine trees in a misty forest. The scene is framed by a delicate gold filigree border. The box features a black lacquered exterior and a vibrant red lacquered interior. The lid is inscribed with gold Cyrillic text: to the centre right is the title Утро в сосновом лесу (Utro v sosnovom lesu – Morning in a Pine Forest); to the bottom right is the production centre Федоскино (Fedoskino) and the artist signature Т. Редькина (T. Redkina); to the top left is a further inscription reading Васина Н. (Vasina N.).
Length: approximately 11 cm.
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