CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Handle and band around top and bottom of cup are plain. On front of cup is a medallion with a horseman on a rearing horse in a landscape, all in niello on a stippled ground. Around the rest of the cup is a leaf and floral scroll also in niello on a stippled ground.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1851
- Size:
- 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.54
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, 84 in a square, A.K./1851 in a sqaure, A.K. in a square
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973