The palette is distinct and has an original combination of paints. Cool tonal qualities dominate the perimeter of the composition while the girls are distinguished with brighter warm tones of paint. The technique used to create the layout of the painting comes from icon painting, where entire scenes take place on a flat surface and time and perspectives are warped. Gold paint is used to decorate the clothing on the girls, which enhances the warm paints used depict them. The box is constructed out of paper-mache made in the village of Kholuy.
Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior and red lacquer to paint the interior of the piece.
Gold beading frames the scene on the lid, while gold scrollwork accented with aluminum beads wraps around the sides of the box. The box has a hinge above the composition and rests on a flat bottom. The lacquer art of Vasiliy Papilov is becoming much harder to find these days. He tragically died in a car accident in 1999 during a period in his painting where he was making a name for himself. His memory will live on in his art, but pieces like this are rare nowadays making them just that much more special.