$100
Group of Palekh School Russian figural pieces comprising of one ceramic lidded music box depicting an interior party scene with numerous dancing courtly figures and entertainers in hues of purple, red, green, and gold, with velvet lined interior housing for music mechanics, inscribed on bottom with Cyrillic characters and "Ardleigh Elliott & Sons", 2" x 5" x 2. 5"; a small wooden black lacquer box depicting a standing man with beard peering over the shoulder of a seated female in fur, set amidst a lush greenscape, surrounded by a border of gold scrollwork, with a red lacquer interior, signed on lower lid in Cyrillic, inscribed on bottom "Made in USSR", 2.75" x 2" x 1.25"; a small square lidded box with rounded corners depicting a stately couple in red and green robes atop a floating carpet in the clouds flanked by a peacock and a faced crescent moon in green, with an ornamental scrolled border around the body of the box, signed on lower lid in Cyrillic, 3.25" x 3.25" x 1.25".
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2014-11-16
