CIRCULAR BOX WITH A TREE PLANTING SCENE

Creator(s): Vladimir Mikhailovich Baranov (Artist)

Currently in storage

About this object

The exterior of the small circular box is lacquered in black. On the cover in bright colors is a scene of a young peasant man and woman standing in a fanciful forest. The young man has a spade in his proper right hand and a sapling in his proper left hand. The interior is red.

Object name:

CIRCULAR BOX WITH A TREE PLANTING SCENE

Made from:

Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- tempera

Made in:

USSR: Palekh

Date made:

1935

Size:

2.5 x 5.7 cm (1 x 2 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

35.23.1-2

Class:

LACQUER

Signature marks:

MARK 397. Written in gilt on cover, lower left. This is probably a design number. SIGNATURE; DATE [Cyrillic] V. Baranov. Palekh. 1935g. Written in gilt on cover, lower right. Artist's signature, place of manufacture, date.

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973