Offering a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted trinket art box from the Fedoskino school in Russia.

This artwork features a pretty, young woman walking with a basket of red rowan tree berries and leaves she has been gathering in the forest. The brilliant composition glows and shimmers, her red dress moving with the light. The tree with it's brilliant red fruit on the right and a bright green, sunlit patch of grass on the left.

The rowan-tree has long been  a part of the Russia's poetic soul. It’s a very Russian tree that was historically planted in noble estates, monasteries, and ordinary households. The trees festive appearance and bitter berries was and still is associated with  lost youth and love, and loneliness. In poetry it is also represented a symbol of life – tragic and short term but never-ending – eternal.

The box is constructed from paper-mache. Red lacquer covers the interior of the box and black lacquer the outside. A hinge is fastened to the left of the composition. The box rests on four small feet.

The box measures 5" X  3" X 1 1/2".

On the lower left and lower right of the face, there is faded writing in Cyrillic. The writing must be seen with a magnifier as the ink is practically the same color as the background, a quirk of the Fedoskino school. Next to the village name there is also a date of 1987.

The box has been preserved in excellent condition. No chips, cracks, etc. Finish is smooth as silk.

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