One can hardly find a more pleasant way on this planet to earn a living than the content of an art gallery. Whole day sit in a quiet room, full of beautiful things, meet a smile to visitors, give them the attention and get attention in return. What can the Bat is more beautiful than to be surrounded by art objects, which are probably the highest form of human expression, to collect these items, keep them open their way into the big world, and even earn a living from it? So, if you decide to become...

Miniature on enamel (enamel) - artistic enameling technique, which uses the device of carpal easel painting. The first image registration (underpainting) perform on a white enamel background copper plate of the base. After the underpainting plate was dried, roasted in a muffle furnace at 800 degrees and again prescribed. This process is to maximize the color of sophistication and detail drawings of the artist-enamel repeated many times.

Miniature on enamel appeared in Europe in nachale17...

Hallmarks on the artistic products of the plant Kasli appeared around 1850. Factory markings of an earlier time is not fixed. Have different types of factory stamps depending on the time of production of the subject, but in the signature stamp is always the same is the presence of a "basic" stamps with the name of the plant.

Stamp, as a rule, was put on the inside (back) side of the cradle or pallet and product shape in a rectangular frame with the abbreviated name of the plant and...

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Perchenko - one of the first Russian collectors who have been methodically and consistently collect old Western European art. Today, he recalls the blissful days when significant things can still be bought even at flea markets.
My main entertainment with the twelve years was a visit to an antique shop on Old Arbat, where all major Moscow art collectors. There I met wonderful people: Felix Wisniewski, Abram Schuster, and they taught me to collecting.
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David Kakabadze. "Imereti Still Life", 1949. Bonhams, estimate £ 20-30 thousand
                                           Photo: Bonhams

                          Russian Art Week will be held in London, as always, in June. Much of the credit auction houses, they make life collectors measured and stable. You can...