BOX WITH A SCENE FROM NIKOLAI NEKRASOV’S "GENERAL TOPTYGIN"
Creator(s): Stashkov (Artist)
Currently in storage
About this object
Box is rectangular in shape. On cover in colors is a troika pulled by one dappled grey horse and two in red. In sleigh is a bear with a ring in his nose driving. Ground is covered with snow and there is a quarter moon in the black sky. Scene is idenitified with an inscription in lower center. Sides are black except for a scroll in yellow with white rosettes around lower edge. Interior is red.
- Object name:
- BOX WITH A SCENE FROM NIKOLAI NEKRASOV’S "GENERAL TOPTYGIN"
- Made from:
- Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- tempera
- Made in:
- USSR: Palekh
- Date made:
- 1939
- Size:
- 3.8 × 14 × 9.2 cm (1 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 35.47
- Class:
- LACQUER
- Signature marks:
- MARK; INSCRIPTION lower center: inscription; lower right: 1939 CTAWKOB NANEZ 1939; lower left: 2501
- Credit line:
- Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968