CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Decoration is a vine scroll in niello on silver against a stippled gilt ground. Foot has a running triangular or toothed design. Rest of charka is gilt. On a tall stem.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1849
- Size:
- 7.9 x 3.8 cm (3 1/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.52
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: 84 in a square, A.K./1849 in a sqaure, AK in a square; on lip: AK in a square, St. George and the Dragon for Moscow
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973