Show all images on one page	#007721 Title: Dreaming Bear Artist: Kozlov Alexander Size: 13.5x11x3 Size (inches): 5.25x4.25x1.25 Price : $3750 SOLD!

This box has been painted by a talented Fedoskino artist Alexander Kozlov.Alexander is the son of Fedoskino Top Master Sergyey Kozlov, and it is a pleasure to see how the skills are going from one generation of the artists to another.
The box PROBABLY depicts a scene from the Russian fairy-tale "Masha and the Bear" or showing a fantasy on this theme.
This short tale tells how a young girl got lost in the forest, found a house where the bear was living.When the bear cam back home, he likes Masha a lot and tell her to stay at his house , clean it and prepare him food. Some time later Masha decided to escape, but failed and she ask the bear to bring some cakes to her grandma and grandpa, who abviously were worried of her absence and bear agreed. Masha baked the cakes and put them in a large bag. in the last moment she hided in this bag and Bear has bring her to her grandparents.
Two pieces of mother-of-pearl are inlayed in Masha's dress and the the tree in the right part of the composition.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the piece while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the top of the composition. The box rests flat. The composition is framed with metal silver shapes cut out of silver metal foil, and glued to the box manually(so called "scan"). The box's sides are decorated with more complex "scan" work.
The box is signed with the artist's name, the village of Fedoskino, and the year of 2014 at the bottom of the composition.