A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BRATINA
Lot 373 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BRATINA

RUSSIA, 17TH CENTURY

Closed2 June 2014

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BRATINA
RUSSIA, 17TH CENTURY
Of bulbous form, the gilt rim chased with Russian inscription 'This Bratina [belongs] to the Troitsky Sergeev Monastery', apparently unmarked, numbered N 107; N 6/10 and 47 under base
3½ in. (9 cm.) high
5.68 oz. (161.2 gr.)

Specialist note

A very similar seventeenth century bratina, also inscribed ‘Bratina of the Troitsky Sergeev Monestary’ is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 53.1041 (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, pp. 40-41, 216).
In the seventeenth century, Peter I sought shelter within the walls of the Troitsky Sergeev Monastery twice. It remains the most important Russian Monastery In Russia and is regarded as the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church.