Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Hand-painted lacquered boxes, including four Fedoskino forms, the first three with red interiors, signed Кресмина (Kresmina) to the lower right, and ФЕДОКИНО to the lower left, including one of a setter dated 2002, and the other of a barn scene with animals (both 1 1/4 x 4 x 2 3/4 in.); the third featuring the traditional Russian fairy tale of Father Frost, signed to the lower right (1 5/8 x 3 5/8 x 5 in.); the fourth with winter cottage landscape scenes, signed and dated 2000 (2 x 3 3/4 x 3 in.); the fifth and largest of Ruslan and the Giant Head from the poem "Ruslan and Ludmila," signed to the lower corners (1 3/4 x 6 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.).
Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia Some scrapes to the lid edges of the largest Ruslan box; otherwise minor surface marks.
