Cat Lover's Dream Nesting Doll 15pc./12"

One needn't be a cat lover to appreciate this matryoshka! Feline fanciers, look no further - here is a 15pc. matryoshka that features 36 cats and celebrates the special relationship between cat and owner. The outermost 11 dolls feature lovely blue-eyed maidens and almost every breed of kitty imaginable! Keep opening the set, and you'll find a basket of kittens, a regal Siamese, a ball of yarn, and last - a mouse! A unique gift for those who think you can never have too many cats - or nesting dolls! Production Techniques: Hand Painting. This nesting doll was carved in the Upper Volga region, the Russian center of nesting doll carving. The carved pieces were assembled, doll inside a doll, and then delivered to the Golden Cockerel workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia. Our artists painstakingly hand paint every detail, beginning with backgrounds and moving to the finer elements that require a brush of very select Siberian squirrel hair. It is daunting to think of the time and talent invested in each of the nesting pieces! Finally we baptize each doll in multiple layers of non-toxic water-based lacquer to make a marvelous matryoshka that will delight children and collectors.