CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Around the charka is a series of three medallions, one with a basket of fruit and two with scenes of country scenes. Whole is in niello on silver against a stippled ground. Handle is an elabroate scroll centering a flower.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 19th c.
- Size:
- 3.5 x 5.7 cm (1 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.57
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK bottom: star pattern scratched
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973