Boretskaya Decorative Shallow Dish [Northern Dvina]

Product Description

Boretskaya Painted Shallow Dish (Расписная Миска "(Борецкая"). An elderly balalaika player sits on a beam. His costume is traditional peasant, including "lapti" (straw footwear). Elegant handmade linden wood dish is painted with gouache paints and covered with a matte varnish. Made in 1992, bottom is signed by the artist "Левинская". 7½" and just short of 1" deep. 1 only.

Boretskaya painting, a Russian folk art craft, is a style of painting on wood. It began a couple of centuries ago, in the village of Borok (Борок) in the Shenkur district (Шенкурский уезд) near the Northern Dvina river. Other styles subsequently appeared, including “Puchuzhskaya", “Toyemsky", as well as similar ones such as those from Arkhangelsk and Gorodets.