Show all images on one page	#009021 Title: Tale of a Golden Cockrel Artist: Zotov Sergey Size: 5.5x18.5x3 Size (inches): 2x7.25x1.25 Price : $1295 SOLD!

This originally shaped box has been painted and created by a talented Fedoskino artist, Zotov Sergey.
The box shows a scene from the Tale of Golden Cockerel written by a famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
This is a story of Tsar Dadon who received from a magic astrologer a magic golden cockerel and in return for it promised to fulfill any of the astrologer's wishes. The cockerel crowed to warn the tsar of approaching danger, thus enabling him to assemble troops and rebuff the enemy attack. When the cockerel crowed again to alarm, the tsar sent his sons at the head of the troops in the direction from which danger threatened. When his sons didn't return, he set out with an army himself. Instead of an armed enemy he was met by the beautiful Shemakha Queen. She was the enemy of whom the cockerel had warned the tsar. The silly and lustful tsar didn't want to believe the cockerel and proposed marriage the Shemakha Queen in spite of the fact that it was obvious that she had killed his sons. In the end of the story the tsar is punished and killed because of his carelessness by a Rooster.
The scene is painted in bright oil paints. A piece of mother-of pearl is shining throught a Golden Rooster, which sit on the head of the Tsar.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Gray and creamy white lacquers are used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the left of the scene, and the box rests flat. The work is signed with the artist's name and title under the hinge on the base.