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BOX WITH A SCENE OF A MAN AND WOMAN ON A FLYING CARPET

Creator(s): Nikolai Aleksandrovich Korovaikov (Artist)

Currently in storage


About this object

On cover is scene with Oriental palace before which stands a crowned figure pointing to a couple on a flying carpet. Possibly a scene from Aleksandr Pushkin’s "Tale of the Golden Cockerel."

Object name:
BOX WITH A SCENE OF A MAN AND WOMAN ON A FLYING CARPET
Made from:
Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- tempera
Made in:
USSR: Palekh
Date made:
1935
Size:
4.4 x 9.5 x 15.6 cm (1 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
35.45
Class:
LACQUER
Signature marks:
MARK N2031 Written in gilt on cover, lower left. 2031 is probably a design number. SIGNATURE; DATE [Cyrillic] 1935 Palekh N. Korovaikov Written in gilt on cover, lower right
Credit line:
Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1970