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This beautiful box is made from paper mache and wonderfully painted by unknown Fedoskino
master. The box is shaped as well-known Russian ferry-tail "house on chicken legs", so, the roof could be opened, it's well lacquered. The space all around the picture is filled with bizarre gold tracery. Such caskets are very suitable for keeping any small things: jewelry,
money, cigarettes, needles, buttons etc.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
Nowadays there are four main centers of lacquer art production in Russia.
They are Fedoskino, Palekh, Mstera, and Kholui. Each of these centers is named after the small
village in which they are located. Each of them has its own art school and factory.
The Fedoskino lacquer miniature developed separately from
icon painting, and as such has several unique qualities. The most remarkable is that it's the
only village to paint with oils, instead of egg-tempera. The Fedoskino artists also use mother-of-pearl
and gold inlay much more extensively, and with rare exception, exclusively. The use of oils broadened
the range of subjects the Fedoskino artists could cover, because it allows greater realism than
egg-tempera.
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