Famous Russian ORIGINAL Completely Hand Painted Nice Lacquer Box Magic Fish #207 for Sale

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Famous Russian ORIGINAL Completely Hand Painted Nice Lacquer Box Magic Fish #207 For Sale

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Famous Russian ORIGINAL Completely Hand Painted Nice Lacquer Box Magic Fish #207:
$47.95

This beautiful small box wasintricately hand painted and signed by Russian artist Koper fromKholyi Art school. The painting represents the scene from the famousfairy-tale Magic Fish written by great Russian poet AlexanderPushkin. The box is one of a kind, you receive what you see on thepictures. The black and white copy of the fairy-tale is included.Size 2 x 2 x 1\'\'.

At Russian Island we sell only originalhand painted Lacquer boxes. It takes a lot of time and skill fromhighly experienced artists to create a fully hand painted box. Weguarantee that our boxes are fully hand painted in Russia byprofessional artists. Some sellers on the internet sell cheap fakeboxes with the prints glued on top of the box, some of them mighteven have a little touch up paint (painted by amateur \'\'artists\'\') totop of the box. They will try and call these \'\'hand painted\'\' butthey use those words to simply mislead buyers. This fake method doesnot take nearly the time and effort it does to truly hand paint alacquer box with a single haired brush (we are talking days vsminutes). You can check the authenticity of the box by looking at thetop under a strong magnifying glass. On the fake ones you will seethe small dots from the print on the larger picture areas. Russianlacquer boxes are well known all over the world. The main schools ofRussian lacquer miniatures is a unique branch of world applied art.There are four villages located not far from Moscow, which createRussian lacquer miniatures. The schools of this art (named byvillages) are PALEKH, MSTERA, KHOLYI, and FEDOSKINO. Artists of theseschools painted religious icons (miniatures) for many centuries.After the Communist revolution (1917) they were not permitted to doicons and they began to make lacquer boxes. Each village has its ownstyle and favorite subjects: fairy tales, village scenes, landscapes,and bouquets. The first Russian lacquer factories appeared at thebeginning of the 18th Century. The villages worked together to createthe unique designers, using methods that have been passed on forgenerations. Some cut the cardboard to size, cover it with paste, andpress it in mold to dry it and then deep it in linseed oil. That iswhen the carpenters take over. They plane and sand the forms theyapply putty made by hand to each box and smooth it so the painterscan readily coat each box with lacquer, then send the box to theartist. The artist draws an outline, paints it in with zinc white,and covers it with colors, which are egg emulsion tempera made freshin extremely small quantities. Gold leaf is applied and burnishedwith a wolf tooth. All artists make own brushes from squirrel hairand often paint their detailed designs with one hairbrush undermagnifying glass. Each box requires incredible amount of work.