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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