CIGARETTE BOX

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Covered with printed paper. On hinged cover a scene of figures in a landscape in the Palekh style, a young man playing the accordion, behind him five women in folk costume, and one man singing, and all standing in a silvery clearing surrounded by green grass and trees against a black sky. Around sides, a gilt net like motif.

Object name:

CIGARETTE BOX

Made from:

Cardboard

Made in:

USSR

Date made:

ca. 1930

Size:

2.2 x 12.2 x 10.2 cm (7/8 x 4 13/16 x 4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

34.79

Class:

WOOD

Signature marks:

INSCRIPTION on bottom in Cyrillic: AYKAT, TIANEXCKNN GARH

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973