Show all images on one page	#006030 Title: Masquerade Artist: Yevdokimova-Belovodova Sletlana Size: 6x4.5x2.5 Size (inches): 2.25x1.75x1 Price : $1250 SOLD!

This small richly decorated box is a creation of Svetlana Yevdokimova-Belovodova from the village of Fedoskino. The work is called "Masquerade", and shows a lady and a gentleman flirting with each other hiding their real faces behind the masks.The details are amazing! The faces are painted with photo-like quality!
The lady's fan and a fragment of her mask and part of costume of a gentleman are decorated with tiny silver beads and crystal beads, which are there -dimensional. The scene is framed with a wide gold band. The four edges of the lid are adorned with large oval malachite beads encircled by tiny gold metal beads glued to the box's exterior manually!
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. For additional decoration the black lacquered exterior of the box is studded with gold wavy lines and veins, tiny crystal beads and silver dust. The red lacquered interior of the box is studded with gold veins. The lid is hinged from the top of the scene, and the box rests on four oval malachite beads encircled by tiny gold metal beads glued to the box's exterior manually. The work is signed with the artist's name, the title and Fedoskino on the lid's interior.