April 1, 2024
Lucy Maxym Collection Russian Lacquered Collector Plate
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This item is a gorgeous collector's plate, one in a set of five from the Lucy Maxym Museum Collection. Reproduced on fine porcelain and issued in a numbered edition exclusively for Corners of the World Inc. The image on the front is created from a plate painted by a Master of the Palekh School of Russian Lacquer Miniature Painting. The plate shows a scene from the Russian story of The Enchanted Frog Princess. It shows Princess Vasilisa at the great wedding feast: "She waved her right sleeve - and swans appeared". The front of the plate is black lacquer decorated in many vibrant reds, yellows, blues and golds. It is for decorative art use only - not for food use. Precious metal pigments used may be toxic if ingested. The back of the plate has this written in Russian: "THE FROG PRINCESS Created from a plate painted by a Master of the Palekh School of Russian Lacquer Miniature Painting. From The Lucy Maxym Museum Collection. no: 5256" Included in this auction are the plate, a storage cardboard box and a sheet of paper with a full explanation of the art, Lucy Maxym, and The Frog Princess story. In the mid-1960s Lucy Maxym acquired an exclusive license from the Soviet government to export lacquer art to North America. Lucy Maxym became one of the foremost international authorities on lacquer art and established a substantial collection
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