Handmade Papier Mache Russian Folk Doll in Lithuanian Costume art glass bottle with the care and skill

with the care and skill of their maker palpable

This ceramic mushroom sculpture and flower frog was produced by the Lantz

with some light scratching to the surface of the glass and enamel

Seen as a symbol of perseverance and good luck

Handmade Papier Mache Russian Folk Doll in Lithuanian Costume art glass bottle with the care and skillI'm really taken with this little papier mache doll, so finely constructed and painted, and with a presence that far exceeds her diminutive stature (she feels rather like a tower of calm and composure!) I've learned that she is one of a set of 16 such dolls, handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s, with traditional costumes representing all of the states of the Soviet Union at the time. She, in shades of white, blue and yellow,