Show all images on one page	#006331 Title: Bell-tower in the town of Shuya Artist: Teplov Sergey Size: 21x13x4.5 Size (inches): 8x4.75x1.75 Price : $950 SOLD!

This box has been created by well-known artist Sergey Teplov from the village of Kholui. Teplov is a highly skilled artist whose forte is architectural scenes and monuments. Works by Teplov are exhibited in the Kholuy Museum of miniature painting, the Ivanovo Region Art Museum and the All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art and also in private collections.
The box features a view of the ancient town of Shuya, and the Bell Tower of the Resurrection Cathedral that is located there.
Shuya is situated on the picturesque bank of the river Teza and the Klyazma. Legends about this town are curious, they says, that it is one of the most ancient towns and in former times it was the Capital of Russia, and that the word "Shuya" in Sarmatian language means "capital". An ancient settlement on the place of Shuya must have been founded by Finno-Ugrian tribes; and its name may come from the Finnish word, meaning "swamp, marshland". According to order version, the name goes back to old Slavic word, meaning "on the bank of the river".
The first document about Shuya comes from to 1539. However, there are bases to assume, that the town existed already in the middle of the 14th century as a part of the Suzdal- Nizhnij Novgorod princedom. Princes Shuysky are mentioned since 1403, they owned the town almost 200 years. The representative of this family was Vasily Shuysky, the last tsar from the family of Rurikovi. As legends say, Vasily Shuysky frequently was in the ancestral lands.
Shuya was always linked with Russian culture. The spiritual school of Shuya, one of the oldest in Russia, was graduated by I.V.Tsvetaev, the founder of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, father of the outstanding poetess of "silver age" of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Today Shuya is the center of the textile industry. Woodworking industry, light industry and food production are also developed in Shuya. Well-known center of Lacquer box center called Palekh located in only 30 kilometers/20 miles from Shuya.
The scene is framed with elegant gold pattern. The box's sides are decorated with more intricate gold ornamentation.
The box is constructed from quality paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. The lid is hinged from the left of the composition, and the box rests on four legs. The box is signed with the artist's name, the year of 2003, the title ("Shuya. The Bell Tower of the Resurrection Cathedral") and the village of Kholui.