CHARKA (ONE OF TWO)
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Pointed at one end for pouring and at opposite end a stem for a handle with leaves and flowers forming the feet. Bottom is neilloed with a coat of arms, handles and initials DC with coronet for Chichirin, first Governor of Siberia.
- Object name:
- CHARKA (ONE OF TWO)
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Tobolsk, Russia
- Date made:
- 1770
- Size:
- 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.4.2
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MONOGRAM; COAT OF ARMS
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973