A Very Nice and Rare, Old, Unusual Authentic Russian Lacquer box.

MSTERA Lacquer box.

Author: V. Kabanova "Natasha (song)" 1950e

Size: 5,7 x 5,7 x 1,8 inch (145 x 145 x 45 mm.)

Great item for your collection.

Good condition for its age. 

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Natasha (1950)

Music: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy

Lyrics: Mikhail Isakovsky

In the fields, behind the gates, of my native village

In a golden headscarf, Natasha went,

A tall rye rose in front of her:

"Oh, where are you going, Natalya, where are you going?"

She met "joy" on that meadow

With his jacket open, watch on his hand.

“Joy” met her, as if she was waiting:

“Didn’t you come to visit me, Natasha?”

Natasha answered him:

“I don’t understand such ridicule!”

I wanted to check if the rye was ripe,

Why are you laughing, won’t you let me pass?”

The guy smiles: “As you can see, it’s fate:

I was also going to check the bread!

I was going alone, but it turned out -

You and I will have to check it together!"

Наташа (1950)

Музыка: Василий Соловьёв-Седой

Слова: Михаил Исаковский

На поля, за ворота, родного села

В золотистой косынке Наташа пошла,

Поднялась перед нею высокая рожь:

"Ах, куда ты, Наталья, куда ты идёшь?"

Повстречалась ей "радость" на том на лужке

В пиджаке нараспашку, часы на руке.

Повстречалась ей "радость", как будто ждала:

"Не ко мне ли, Наташа, ты в гости пришла?"

Отвечала на это Наташа ему:

"Я подобных насмешек никак не пойму! —

Я проверить хотела, поспела ли рожь,

Отчего ты смеёшься, пройти не даёшь?"

Улыбается парень: "Как видишь, — судьба:

Я ведь тоже собрался проверить хлеба!

Я один собирался, а вышло притом —

Проверять нам придется с тобою вдвоём!"

MSTERA

Russian folk art craft, miniature painting with tempera paints on lacquerware.  The center of the Mstera Miniature is the urban-type settlement of Mstera, Vladimir Region.  From the end of the 17th century until 1917, the population of Mstera and other villages of the Vyaznikovsky district of the Vladimir province was engaged in icon painting, which was famous for the subtlety of pictorial techniques.  In 1923, icon painters from Mstyora organized the Artel of Old Russian Painting, turning to the decoration of wooden turned products (salt shakers, nesting dolls, boxes, and others).  In 1926, the Proletarian Creativity, an industrial cooperative artel (from 1931 Proletarian Art; from 1960 a factory) was created.  By the 1930s  they mastered the technology of making products (mainly caskets and caskets) from papier-mâché, borrowed from the masters of Fedoskino and Palekh miniatures.  Plots were mainly written in everyday life, folklore, historical, literary.  The Mstera miniature is characterized by the integrity of the overall tone (silver-bluish or ocher), the sonority and softness of color, the image of the deep landscape environment, the subtlety of the framing pattern, made of created gold.  Famous old masters A. I. Bryagin, N. P. Klykov, A. F. Kotyagin, A. N. Kulikov, A. M. Merkuriev, I. N. Morozov, V. N. Ovchinnikov, I. A. Fomichev  .  Ornamental compositions, still lifes, bouquets (artist E. V. Yurin) also became widespread.  Since the end of the 1960s, the art of the Mstera miniature has turned to the search for decorativeness, since the 1980s - to the creative implementation of the ancient Russian tradition.  In modern Mstyora, the traditions of icon painting and restoration work are also being revived.  Among the leading artists of the Mstera miniature are Yu. M. Vavanov, L. A. Demidova, N. A. Lyubomudrova, V. N. Molodkin, V. F. Nekosov, P. I. Sosin, L. A. Fomichev, N.  I. Shishakov.

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