$480
each of a rectangular shape with a hand-painted cover; the hinged cover of one of the boxes features a detailed scene from Pushkin`s depicting Liudmila by a castle on the exotic shores of the Black Sea; an ornate gilded border runs around the black base of the box; red-lacquered interior; length: 13.2 cm (5 1/4 in.), titled lower center, signed lower right, inscribed and numbered lower left; on the other box, the lid hand-painted with various characters from the with the Tsarevna and her fiance Yelisei in the center of the composition, flanked by the Seven Knights and her father on earlier side; an ornate gilded border runs around the black base of the box; red-lacquered interior; length: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.), signed and dated lower right, numbered and inscribed lower left
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2014-10-25
