CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Charka divided into four sections by ribbing. Each section contains a small landscape with animals partly in niello against a gilt rayed background. Landscapes are framed by niello scrolls. Area between the frames is gilded and stippled. Handle is a S-scroll.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1770
- Size:
- 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.9
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, an illegible testers mark with partial date 177?, makers mark, NM
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973