TUMBLER

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Upper and lower parts gilded. Lip flares outward and foot is ring shaped. Around the body in niello on a stippled ground are two panels, one with a horseman galloping to the right and one with a ship in full sail in a harbor. Between these are panels with leaf motifs in silver and silver gilt in nielloed ground.

Object name:

TUMBLER

Made from:

Silver gilt -- niello

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

1841

Size:

6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

13.161

Class:

NIELLO

Signature marks:

MARK [St. George and the Dragon] Identifies the piece as having been made in Moscow. mark 84 The silver standard. Assayer's mark ?/1841 Assayer's initials have not yet been determined. Most likely is Mikhail Pavlovich Churmazov, 1841-1852. See Postnikova-Loseva, p. 205, mark 2107. maker's mark [Cyrillic Caps] FKh Name undetermined.

Credit line:

Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968