CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The round bowl is shaped like an old Russian tub and is decorated only by turning. The handle is set with a Greek? coin on a swivel and has two serpents that twine about the bowl.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- Before 1896
- Size:
- 10 cm (3 15/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.170
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK bottom, two hallmarks: 1. crossed anchors and sceptre for St. Petersburg; 88; 2. [transcription]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973