Nativity Hand Painted Wooden Nesting Egg 5 Pc. w/ Cyrillic Russian Scripts For Sale

Produced at the Ryazan workshop, this egg-shaped matryoshka features different scenes from the life of Christ on each of the five eggs. The first egg is the Nativity. The second is Jesus's baptism. The final three are the Garden of Gethsemane, the Crucifixion, and the Ascension. The detailed illustrations on the front are achieved through a clever combination of printing and hand painting. The titles of the scenes are written Russian in gold ink on the backs of each egg, a tasteful touch.