Russian Square Palekh Box with Scene from Russian Life New from Moscow, Russia

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Hello and welcome to our listing.
You are buying a Papier-Mache Russian
Palekh Box
with a Scene from Russian Life
that we brought back from our recent buying trip to Moscow, Russia. This beautiful box is hand painted, and signed with the initials of the artist.
The box exterior is approximately 4" long by 4" wide by 1.125" tall.
This item is a Palekh box made in Russia by real Russian craftsmen practicing centuries old traditions. The Palekh box is one of many Russian crafts practiced by expert artisans in the areas surrounding Moscow and beyond. These artisans are frequently practicing the family crafts of their parents, grand-parents and even generations longer.
Now is your chance to own a real piece of Russian culture!
Here is some information on the Palehk craft:
Palekh miniature
Palekh miniature
(Russian:
Палехская
миниатюра
) is a Russian Folk Handcraft of miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mache (small boxes, cigarette and powder cases etc.).
Palekh Russian lacquer art on papier-mâché first appeared in 1923 in the village of Palekh, located in the district of (Ivanovo Orblast), and is based on a long local history of icon painting. This handicraft and style of miniature painting bore different names throughout its development, such as the Palekh Artel of Ancient Painting (since 1924), Palekh Artists’ Association (since 1932), and Artistic Production Workshops of the Artistic Fund of the USSR (since 1953).
The technology of making a semi-finished product was borrowed from the lacquer handicraft masters of Fedoskino (see
Fedoskino miniature
). The Palekh miniatures usually represent characters from real life, literary works, fairy tales, bylinas, and songs. They are painted with local bright paints over the black background and are known for their delicate and smooth design, abundance of golden shading, and accurate silhouettes of flattened figures, which often cover the surface of the lids and sides of the articles completely. Poetic magic of the Palekh characters, decorativeness of landscapes and architecture, and elongated proportions of the figures go back to the icon-painting traditions. The miniatures are usually set off with a complicated pattern made with gold dissolved in aqua regia. Palekh is the most renowned of four such famous villages, the others being Kholuy, Mstyora, and Fedoskino, each producing similar, but clearly distinct artistic style.
The art of miniature painting is still alive today. Nowadays there are workshops of the Artistic Fund of Russia, as well as small private studios and independent artists in Palekh. Palekh miniature artists are trained at the Palekh Art College founded in 1935.
Works by Palekh masters are kept in numerous museums of Russia and abroad. The State Palekh Art Museum in Palekh boasts the biggest miniature painting collection, comprising over two thousand works.
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