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For the #artnouveau.deviantart.com/ contest. A sketch for pendant (bronze, ivory, pearls, mate glass, horn, enamel).
My vision of Russian tale "Tsarevna Lyagushka" (the Frog Princess). The king sets his three sons to marry, and tests their chosen brides. The king tells them to shoot arrows and find their brides where the arrows land, and the youngest prince's arrow is picked up by a frog. The two older sons may already have girls picked out, but the youngest son -- Ivan Tsarevich — is at a loss until a friend offers to marry him.
The king assigns his three prospective daughters-in-law various tasks, such as spinning cloth and baking bread. In every task, the frog far outdoes the lazy brides-to-be of the older brothers. In some versions, she uses magic to accomplish the tasks, the other brides attempt to emulate her and cannot do the magic. Still, the young prince is ashamed of his froggy bride, until she is magically transformed into a princess.
She was obligated to spend 3 years in a frog's skin for disobeying her father. Her last test may be dancing with the frog bride having shed her skin; the prince then burns it, to her dismay. If he had waited, she would have been free, but he has lost her.

Description
For the #artnouveau.deviantart.com/ contest. A sketch for pendant (bronze, ivory, pearls, mate glass, horn, enamel).
My vision of Russian tale "Tsarevna Lyagushka" (the Frog Princess). The king sets his three sons to marry, and tests their chosen brides. The king tells them to shoot arrows and find their brides where the arrows land, and the youngest prince's arrow is picked up by a frog. The two older sons may already have girls picked out, but the youngest son -- Ivan Tsarevich — is at a loss until a friend offers to marry him.
The king assigns his three prospective daughters-in-law various tasks, such as spinning cloth and baking bread. In every task, the frog far outdoes the lazy brides-to-be of the older brothers. In some versions, she uses magic to accomplish the tasks, the other brides attempt to emulate her and cannot do the magic. Still, the young prince is ashamed of his froggy bride, until she is magically transformed into a princess.
She was obligated to spend 3 years in a frog's skin for disobeying her father. Her last test may be dancing with the frog bride having shed her skin; the prince then burns it, to her dismay. If he had waited, she would have been free, but he has lost her.