CHARKA
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Sides are nielloed on silver with a panorama of buildings, walls, etc. partially broken up by swags of drapery. Above and below the landscape are continuous freizes of a leaf pattern.
- Object name:
- CHARKA
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1827
- Size:
- 6.7 × 6.5 cm (2 5/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.25
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscwo, 84 for the silver standard, H.A./1827 in a square, A.W. in a square; on lip: 84
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973