CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Around the upper and lower edges of the tumbler shaped charka are floral borders in silver against a nielloed background. Around the middle is a checquer board design engraved and gilt. Interrupted by two medallions one with a view of a town with churches as seen from a river and inscribed. The other with a view of a public building as seen from river and inscribed. Buildings are engraved on silver with detials in niello. Interior is gilt.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1858
- Size:
- 6.7 × 4.9 cm (2 5/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.59
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK; INSCRIPTION in bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, H.L./1858 in a square, 84 in a square, M.K. in a square; inscriptions around medallions
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973