BOX WITH A SCENE FROM NIKOLAI NEKRASOV’S "GENERAL TOPTYGIN"

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