Product Overview
This exquisite box was painted by a well-known Fedoskino artist Boris Shavirin.
The subject of this bright box is the popular fairy-tale "The Humpbacked Little Pony".
This fairy tale tells about adventures of the stableman Ivan and his faithful friend the Humpbacked Little Pony.
In the beginning of the story Ivan has caught the horse that trampled down the wheat field of his father. The horse asks Ivan to release him, and promises to give Ivan two golden-maned steeds of unheard-of beauty and a pony with two humps on its back and yard-long ears. The golden-maned steeds help Ivan to become the tsar's stableman, while the Little Humpbacked Pony becomes his faithful friend. The capricious and self-willed tsar obliges Ivan to carry out very difficult tasks: to catch the firebird, to kidnap the beautiful Tsar Maiden, and to get the Tsar Maiden's ring lost somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.
A broad spectrum of colors is used to create this highly detailed box. Gold paint and aluminum paints are used to enhance the life and brightness of the scene. Several pieces of mother-of-pearl are shining through the painting. They are in the clothes of the boyarin near the Tsar, in a feather of a Fire-Bir and lady's cloth.
The lid of the box is decorated with a golden ornament. The sides of the box are decorated with rich gold flower patterns.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. The exterior of the box is painted with black lacquer while the interior is completed with red lacquer. The lid is hinged to the top of the composition, and the box rests on four legs. Under the composition the artist has wrote his name and the village of Fedoskino. Approx. 6.25"x5.5"x2".
The subject of this bright box is the popular fairy-tale "The Humpbacked Little Pony".
This fairy tale tells about adventures of the stableman Ivan and his faithful friend the Humpbacked Little Pony.
In the beginning of the story Ivan has caught the horse that trampled down the wheat field of his father. The horse asks Ivan to release him, and promises to give Ivan two golden-maned steeds of unheard-of beauty and a pony with two humps on its back and yard-long ears. The golden-maned steeds help Ivan to become the tsar's stableman, while the Little Humpbacked Pony becomes his faithful friend. The capricious and self-willed tsar obliges Ivan to carry out very difficult tasks: to catch the firebird, to kidnap the beautiful Tsar Maiden, and to get the Tsar Maiden's ring lost somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.
A broad spectrum of colors is used to create this highly detailed box. Gold paint and aluminum paints are used to enhance the life and brightness of the scene. Several pieces of mother-of-pearl are shining through the painting. They are in the clothes of the boyarin near the Tsar, in a feather of a Fire-Bir and lady's cloth.
The lid of the box is decorated with a golden ornament. The sides of the box are decorated with rich gold flower patterns.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. The exterior of the box is painted with black lacquer while the interior is completed with red lacquer. The lid is hinged to the top of the composition, and the box rests on four legs. Under the composition the artist has wrote his name and the village of Fedoskino. Approx. 6.25"x5.5"x2".
Approx. 5"X3.75"x1.75".
