Show all images on one page	#008665 Title: Tale of a Turnip Artist: Kapralova Galina Size: 24x12.5x11 Size (inches): 9.5x5x4.25 Price : $795 SOLD!

Kapralova Galina is a talented Kholui artist who painted this box.
Here she has chosen to depict an episode from the fairy-tale "Turnip".
The plot of this tale is very interesting. The huge turnip grew in the kitchen garden. Nobody could pull it out of the land. The old man tried, the old woman tried, the grandson tried, the granddaughter tried, the dog tried, the cat tried, but everything was in vain. Suddenly the mouse ran up to them, wagged its tail, and only then the turnip was pulled out from the land.
The box's sides has the paintings with the sceans of the village life and growing turnip.
The box's exterior is decorated with beautiful gold and aluminum ornaments, the three lids with simple dot ornament, the sides- with complex golden paint ornamentation. The box's lid is subdivided into three sections (the box also has three interior compartments); there is a drawer within the front side of the box.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinges are fastened to the top of the three lids, and the box rests on four legs.