A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BRATINA

Both the present bratina and charka were most likely made in the Troitse Sergiev Monastery’s workshops. In the seventeenth century, Peter I twice sought shelter within the walls of the monastery. It is still regarded as the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church.

For almost identical charka and bratina from the collection of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, pp. 40-41, 45. Another similar, slightly larger bratina was sold Christie’s, London, 2 June 2014, lot 373.