Product Overview
This attractive lacquer miniature was created by Elena Komissarova of Kholui. This artist specializes in ornamental and floral compositions while using bright tones with realistic floral colors. In the center of this box is a beautiful butterfly and bumble bee painted against a mother of pearl background surrounded with pink roses. The flowers are painted in soft tempera paints and detailed with gold paints. This scene is framed with an intricate gold floral pattern. Small golden dots decorate the edges of the lid.
The box is made out of paper-mache. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. The lid is hinged at the top of the composition, and the box rests on four legs. The artist wrote her name, Kholui, and the title-"Summer" Approx. 5.5"x3.5"x2".
All four corners of this box are decorated with small pieces of real Baltic amber.