Vasilia Premudraja * Phoenix

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"Vasilia Premudraja" fountain pen in Palech style.

The Palekh school is known for its use of tempera, goldleaf and lacquer. Tempera is a painting medium based on egg yolk. It dries fast and leaves little scope for colour gradations. Tempera is not the medium for realistic paintings but rather for fairytale scenes inspired by myths and legends with detailed compositions or thought-provoking images.

Piotr Korobov visited Braunschweig's workshops in the year 1795. Johann Stobwasser's factory specialised in paper-maché artefacts decorated using the techniques of miniature lacquering. Less than one year later, Korobov was to open his own workshop on the outskirts of Fedoskino, where he employed twenty workers. He initially made most of his turnover from lacquering spikes for military helmets, but the factory quickly gained a reputation for its simple round snuffboxes. Specially crafted engravings were bonded onto the lid, painstakingly and eclectically coloured and then coated with a transparent varnish. The engravings depicted military battles, important events, portraits or landscapes. Click here and learn more about the history of Russian Lacquer Art!