Product Description
Double Salt with Ornament (Солонка Двойная с Орнаментом). An interesting and unusual art-quality souvenir from 1979 designed and created by Vladimir Rufovich Gorbunov. 6½" length, 3⅞" height, bowls are 2½" in diameter. In near fine condition with intact label. 1 only.
Vladimir Rufovich was born in the city of Bor in the Nizhny Novgorod region in 1940. He graduated from the Semenovskoye School of Wood Carving and the Faculty of History and Philology of the Nizhny Novgorod University. For many years he was the leading artist of the Shumerlya Wood Carving Workshop (a branch of the Art Fund of the Union of Artists of Chuvashia). The workshop produced thousands of wooden souvenirs based on his sketches. Chuvashia, aka the Chuvash Republic, is located in Russia between Kazan and Moscow, in the center of the Volga-Vyatka economic region.