Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape with Geese Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1930 Decorative Arts This miniature vinaigrette would have

This miniature vinaigrette would have been worn as a locket on a chain

The back of the plate having a blue character mark inside two concentric circles

each side of the trunk having hand-forged 'rope twist' iron handles

to the center is an ancient faience scarab that swivels to reveal  a hieroglyphic inscription for the 15th Century B

the vase having an etched signature to the underside for Charles Schneider

Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape with Geese Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1930 Decorative Arts This miniature vinaigrette would haveImportant Russian French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus ( in French Pierre Nilouss (1869 1943), signed & dated 1930. Nilus was a celebrated French Russian Imperial impressionist painter & writer of Swiss descent, please biography below. This rather beautiful Impressionistic painting depicts several flocks of geese in a pastoral landscape, with trees on the horizon and the geese portrayed in fields with red