CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Around charka are four medallions, two having flowers in niello on silver against a strie background and two with a daisy strie on a nielloed ground. Between the floral medallions are vertical lines in niello.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1840
- Size:
- 5.6 × 5.6 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.53
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, 84 in a square, illegible, FY (?) in script in a square; on lip: 84, initials PTC
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973