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#002660
Title: Snow Queen
Artist: Kamanina Anna
Size: 14x9.5x2.5
Size (inches): 5.5x3.75x1
Price : $750 SOLD!
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Description: This alluring Palekh box is a creation of Anna Kamanina, the daughter of I.Ya. Kamanin and N.M. Kamanina. She is the Member of Artist's Union since 1989. Her works are exhibited in the State Museum of Palekh Art, the All Russia Museum of Decorative and Applied Art and in the Ivanovo Region Art Museum.
The box depicts a scene from Hans Christian Andersen's popular fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Here we can see the Snow Queen kidnapping Kay, and carrying him to her ice kingdom. At the top of the composition Kamanina wrote in gold paints the extract from the tale that corresponds to the moment painted here: "
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