Live Auction 7968Russian Art
A SILVER-GILT CHARKA
Lot 247

A SILVER-GILT CHARKA

MOSCOW, CIRCA 1690

Closed6 June 2011

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GBP 2,250

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A SILVER-GILT CHARKA
MOSCOW, CIRCA 1690
Circular, on three claw-and-ball feet, with two foliate scroll handles, the interior centring a medallion chased in high relief with the Archangel Raphael leading Tobias in a landscape below the Latin inscription 'HOC DUCE TUTUS ERIS', within ropework border, egg-and-dart rim, the sides chased with dotted panels, apparently unmarked
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) wide
1.86 oz. (57.9 gr.)

Specialist note

For almost identical charkas see K. Helenius, The Russian Charka: The Silver Vodka Cup of the Romanov Era, Helsinki, 2006, pp. 52-53, no. 22 and J. Kugel, Treasures of the Czars: Russia and Europe from Peter the Great to Nicholas I, Paris, 1998, no. 41.