The artist uses a golden palette of paints that is very warm and enticing to the eyes. There is tremendous life and movement created by expert brushwork. The detail is finely painted and the lines have good integrity, which makes the scene look natural. The gold is used to outline features of their clothing, as well as depicting the leaves above and around the two and the goat s bell. The box is constructed out of paper-mache made in the village of Fedoskino.
Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior and red lacquer to paint the interior of the box.
A simple, yet fine gold scrollwork pattern wraps around the sides of the box for decoration. The box has a hinge located to the left of the composition and rests on a four rounded feet.