This beautiful Lacquer Box decorated with Shell paper is hand painted with Florence Mary Anderson, Secrets of the Flowers, The Poppy by Russian Artist Silantyeva.

The box measures 14.3 cm (5 5/8 inches) long, 10.5 cm (4 1/8 inches) wide, 2 cm deep

The Poppy "Admire me; see how gorgeous I am"

Florence Mary Anderson (1893–1972), widely known as Molly MacArthur, was an English stage designer, artist, book illustrator, wood engraver and children's author. Most of her illustration work dates from between 1914 and 1930. Her work for the theatre (always as Molly MacArthur) began in 1923 after which she worked there continuously until 1958.
She was born in Chelsea, London, on 27 October 1893, the second child of the Liberal MP William MacArthur and Florence Creemer (nee Clarke). She trained at the Westminster School of Art and was registered as a student in 1915. She married James Sinclair Standish Anderson on 15 February 1917, but appears to have used his name professionally from at least 1914.
Only Florence Anderson's early work was influenced by the British school of Fairy Art, because ?with maturity, came confidence and an awareness of the exciting possibilities to exploit bold, black and white linear pattern. She became an exponent of the woodcut, examples of which appear in her later books.? She painted a series of postcards for Mansell, but was best known at that period as an illustrator in watercolour of children's books and annuals. Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour illustrations prepared for Lady Margaret Sackville's The Dream Pedlar, published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that followed. She illustrated at least thirty books between 1914 and 1935
Anderson also contributed to nursery comics like Little Folks and Tiny Tots as well as Cassell's Children's Annual and Cassell's Family Magazine.
She had always used the name Molly MacArthur for her monotone woodcut illustrations, quite different in tone and style to the ?Fairy? art created under the name Anderson, but early in the 1920s she reverted permanently to her maiden name and moved into theatrical design.

A Fairy  (also faery, faerie, fay, fae; euphemistically wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair folk, etc.) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural. Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies, though even folklore that uses the term Fairy offers many definitions. Sometimes the term describes any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creatureFairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously dead, or some form of demon, or a species completely independent of humans or angels. Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding,or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These explanations are not necessarily incompatible, and they may be traceable to multiple sources. Much of the folklore about fairies revolves around protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (iron is like poison to fairies, and they will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs.In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian Fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature.