TANKARD

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Handles and foot are undecorated. Plain bands on upper and lower parts of the cup section except for a rope design line. On front is a round medallion with Peter the Great monument in St. Petersburg. On the left is a part of a building and on the right a sailboat. Scene is in niello on a stippled ground. Rest of the tankard is decorated with scrolls and flowers in niello on stippled gilded ground. Detachable cover has two bands with nielloed leaf scrolls, one plain band and finial with tree flowers. Interior is gilded.

Object name:: TANKARD
Made from:: Silver gilt -- niello
Made in:: Moscow, Russia
Date made:: 1845
Size:: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:: 13.108.1-2
Class:: NIELLO
Signature marks:: MARK inside lid: 84, AK in Cyrillic for unknown workmaster in 1835-1849, 258 74 scratched; on rim: St. George, 84, AK in Cyrillic; on bottom: St. George, 1845/ AK in Cyrillic for Koval'skii Andrei (Moscow esayer in 1821-1856) , 84, AK in Cyrillic for unknown workmaster, 60 scratched
Credit line:: Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973