CHARKA (ONE OF TWO)
Creator(s): Unknown (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The bowl is supported by a realistically shaped gilded silver branch that forms the handle, as well as by gilded silver leaves with flowers that form the feet. The bowl itself is gilded inside. On the bottom a decoration in niello on a stippled ground shows the coat of arms of Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, governor of Siberia from 1763 to 1781. On the front of the charka, his initials appear in Latin letters under the nine-point crown of a count. It is part of a service made for Chicherin in mid-1770s.
- Object name:
- CHARKA (ONE OF TWO)
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Tobolsk, Russia
- Date made:
- 1774-1775
- Size:
- 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.3.1
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MONOGRAM; COAT OF ARMS in Cyrillic DCh for Denis Chicherin
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973