Show all images on one page	#006421 Title: Tale of a Sleeping Beauty Artist: Wagner Marie Size: 13x8.5x18 Size (inches): 5x3.25x7 Price : $1950 SOLD!

This superb box was painted by an established Fedoskino artist Marie Wagner.
The painting of this beautiful originally-shaped box is based on the popular fairy-tale of "The Sleeping Beauty". This story was originally put to pen by French writer Charles Perrault in 1696.
The little long-awaited Princess was born in the kingdom. Her parents organized a sumptuous feast and invited seven young fairies. In those times fairies had a marvelous custom to endow their goddaughters with merits and virtues. When the feast was about to begin, the aged fairy appeared whom no one had thought to invite because people supposed her to be dead or bewitched. She declared that the princess would prick her hand with a spindle, and die of it. The King, the Queen, and all the guests were very afraid of this terrible gift. But at this moment one of the young fairies said: "Take comfort, your Majesties, your daughter won't not die. The princess will indeed prick her hand with a spindle. But instead of dying she will merely fall into a profound slumber that will last a hundred years. At the end of that time a king's son will come to awaken her." The prophecy came true. But not only the princess but the whole kingdom fell into a deep sleep.
Here artist Wagner has painted a important moment from this story when the handsome prince who has come to the enchanted kingdom to destroy the evil spell and awake the princess by his sweet kiss.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. The exterior of the box is painted with black lacquer while the interior is completed with dark red lacquer. A hinge is fastened to the top of the box. The box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed,wrote Fedoskino and dated (2011) by the artist in white oils on the back side's bottom of the box.