CIRCULAR BOX WITH A TREE PLANTING SCENE
Creator(s): Vladimir Mikhailovich Baranov (Artist)
Currently in storage
About this object
The exterior of the small circular box is lacquered in black. On the cover in bright colors is a scene of a young peasant man and woman standing in a fanciful forest. The young man has a spade in his proper right hand and a sapling in his proper left hand. The interior is red.
- Object name:
- CIRCULAR BOX WITH A TREE PLANTING SCENE
- Made from:
- Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- tempera
- Made in:
- USSR: Palekh
- Date made:
- 1935
- Size:
- 2.5 x 5.7 cm (1 x 2 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 35.23.1-2
- Class:
- LACQUER
- Signature marks:
- MARK 397. Written in gilt on cover, lower left. This is probably a design number. SIGNATURE; DATE [Cyrillic] V. Baranov. Palekh. 1935g. Written in gilt on cover, lower right. Artist's signature, place of manufacture, date.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973