Show all images on one page	#004329 Title: At the Small Bridge Artist: Vlasova Svetlana Size: 9.5x12.5x2.5 Size (inches): 3.75x5x1 Price : $995 SOLD!

This masterful beauty was composed by Svetlana Vlasova from the village of Kholuy. Vlasova has an incredible skill in painting her compositions with generous gold and silver detailing. Add to that the intricate filigree with which she decorates the rest of her boxes, and you have a piece that absolutely shimmers! In this composition, Vlasova has depicted a date of a beautiful maiden with a lad near the small bridge.
The work features Vlasova's unique and impressive detail work. The scene has subtle, realistic blending of shade and color, almost like an oil painting. There are extremely fine roots, blades of grass, berries, birds, and frogs in the foreground. The strokes are very thin and precise. The piece radiates an ample amount of shine coming from bright gold and silver contours.
Bordering the painting and drifting down onto the sides of the lid is gold filigree, accented with silver circles. A variation of this design decorates the sides of the box base.
This piece is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the piece while a radiant red lacquer completes the interior of the box. A hinge has been fastened to the left of the composition and the box rests on a flat bottom. On the interior of the lid, framed in beautiful gold foliage, Vlasova has written that this is an original work, and has given the title and her name, plus the list of materials that she used.