Lacquer Miniatures - hand painted papier-mache laqcuer boxes and shell objects from Palekh, Mstiora, Kholui and Fedoskino. Unique images from Russian fairy tales, portraits and landscapes in tempera, oil paint and mother-of-pearl. Centuries long tradition of icon painting expressed in the form of laqcuer boxes, brooches and thimbles

Lacquer miniatures

Lacquer Miniatures - hand painted papier-mache laqcuer boxes and shell objects from Palekh, Mstiora, Kholui and Fedoskino. Unique images from Russian fairy tales, portraits and landscapes in tempera, oil paint and mother-of-pearl. Centuries long tradition of icon painting expressed in the form of laqcuer boxes, brooches and thimbles

Palekh