Show all images on one page	#009210 Title: Intallation: Tale of a Silver Hoof Artist: Zotov Sergey Size: 11x11x2.5 Size (inches): 4.25x4.25x1 Price : $750 SOLD!

This originally shaped box (or installation) is showed the scene from a tale of a silver hoof. The box is painted by a talented Fedoskino artist Sergey Zotov.
Here is the plot of the story:
An old man Kokovanya has no family and decides to take an orphan into his house. He finds out that Daryonka (little from "A gift"), a 6-year-old girl, has recently lost her family and invites her to live with him. She accepts, and when she asks about his profession, he reveals that he works as a gold prospector in summer, and in winter he's hunting the certain goat in the forests, because he wants "to see where he stamps his right forefoot".
Kokovanya, Daryonka and her cat named Muryonka start living together.
Kokovanya works to earn their living, the girl cleans the house and cooks. Winter comes, and Kokovanya decides to go hunting in the forest as usual. He tells Daryonka about the grey goat called Silver Hoof:
That's a very special goat. On his right forefoot he's got a silver hoof. And when he stamps with that silver hoof he leaves a gem there. If he stamps once there's one gem, if he stamps twice there are two, and if he begins to paw the ground there'll be a whole pile. Ordinary goats have two horns, but this one's got antlers, with five tines.
Unlike other goats' horns, Silver Hoof's horns are not shed in winter, and that is how Kokovanya is planning to recognize him. Daryonka begs the old man to take her hunting, and he reluctantly agrees. The cat follows them too. In the forest, Kokovanya goes hunting every day and comes back with a lot of regular goat meat and skins. Soon they have so much meat that Kokovanya has to go back to the village to bring the horse, so that they could carry everything back. He leaves the girl in the forest for a while.
Next morning Daryonka sees Silver Hoof passing by. That night, she sees her cat Muryonka sitting in the glade with the goat in front of her, as if they are communicating. They run about the glade for a long time. Next day Muryonka and the goat are gone, but Kokovanya and Daryonka find a lot of gemstones. "After that people often found stones in the glade where the goat had run about. Most of them were green ones, chrysolites, folks call them".
Bright blue and white tones help the artist to express coldness of a winter day.
The goat painted on the top of a house is painted over a large piece of mother-of-pearl!
The box is made out of paper-mache and epoxy resin. Blue lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the installation. The box is lacated in the middle of the installation, and it'she lid is hinged to the top of the composition, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name and the title-Siver Hoof on a side at the top of the box.