Show all images on one page	#003698 Title: Gathering the Berries Artist: Zverkova Liliya Sergeevna(1941) Size: 8x11x2 Size (inches): 3.25x4.25x0.75 Price : $750 SOLD!

This antique box was painted by Liliya Zverkova in 1970. She was born on the 19th of March, 1941 in the town of Prokopyevsk, the Kemerovsk Region. Member of the Union of Artists since 1974. During 1962-1967 she studied in the Palekh Art School. Her teachers were I. Vakurov and A. Kotukhin. Since 1967 she worked in the Palekh Art Workshops. Besides the lacquer miniature art, this artist worked in the sphere of jeweller's art. Participant of various exhibitions since 1969. Her works are kept in the Museum of Palekh Art, the All-Russia Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, and the Art Fund of Russia. Her major works are “In the Forest”, “Mushroom Time” , “Danko”, “Peddlers”, “Bast Shoes”, “My Village”, “Gathering Mushrooms”, “Noon”, “Masha Went to the Market”, “Sirin Bird”.
The box is made out of metal instead of papier-mache. Its exterior shows two brilliantly painted scenes; one of them is painted on the box's lid whereas another one is drawn on the box's exterior bottom. The scene painted on the lid features a peasant and a peasant girl coming back home after mowing grass in the field. On the box exterior bottom you can find one more scene that shows the basket full of mushrooms, and the basket full of berries left by a mushroomer on the sunny forest glade. The costumes of the characters are painted in bright red and orange tones, whereas the surrounding landscape is painted in dark green tones. This is done intentionally in order to focus the viewer's attention on the characters. Each element of the depicted scenes is richly detailed with shining gold paint. Gold is also used to paint the ornaments that decorate the edges of the lid and the edges of the box's exterior bottom.
Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the work. The lid is hinged from the top of the scenes, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The box can be shut toughly by means of a special device; when you push on the small metal device the box can be opened automatically. The work is signed with the artist's name, Palekh and the year of 1970.