Show all images on one page	#002536 Title: Northern Fairy-Tale Artist: Knyazev Sergey Size: 11x12x6.5 Size (inches): 4.25x4.75x2.25 Price : $795 SOLD!

The talented Fedoskino artist Sergey Knyazev created this brilliantly painted box. He has a talent to surprise the viewer with his strikingly decorative and detailed works. No doubt this alluring box will easily win the hearts of lacquer miniature enthusiasts.
The work is called "Northern Fairy-Tale", and features the Prince and the Princess of the northern kingdom. They are dressed in warm furs decorated with fluffy squirrel tails; the Princess holds the bridle tied to the reindeer's collar, this noble animal helps the loving couple to travel along the boundless snowy expanses of the northern land. The cold sun shines brightly, but it doesn't warm the frozen ground. The sky glows with the shimmering northern lights. This faraway land with severe climate is very beautiful and inhabited with rich flora and fauna. Red foxes, sables, polar foxes, white bears, penguins, walruses and many, many other unique animals can be found only here. Anyone who has ever been in the extreme north will never forget the severe beauty of this land.
Here the artist has used his favorite palette filled with various shades of blue. Mother-of-pearl that shimmers with a variety of various shades is inlaid in various portions of the composition. It creates brilliance of the sun, shines through the figures of both characters, and produces the charming greenish-violet radiance of the icy ground in the foreground. Gold metal leaf shines through the fox's fur. Aluminum and gold powder adds more festivity to the piece.
The exterior of the box's body is covered with light gray lacquer, while the interior is traditionally red. The box's sides are decorated with the Knyazev-style original gold and aluminum ornamentation. On the one hand it looks like gold and aluminum blurry spots, dots and lines; on the other hand it resembles golden and silver trees, firs and snowflakes.
The box is constructed from quality paper-mache. The lid is hinged at the top, and the box rests on legs. Signed, titled, and dated (2006) by Sergey Knyazev in gold paints on the lid's interior.