Live Auction 11997Russian Art
A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA
Lot 373

A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA

MOSCOW, 1693-1694

Closed28 November 2016

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GBP 12,500

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A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA

MOSCOW, 1693-1694
On three claw-and-ball feet, with a kokoshnik-shaped handle, the body and interior finely nielloed in the Turkish style, the base engraved with three tulips on the base, marked under handle
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) wide
1.46 oz. (45.5 gr.) gross

Specialist note

For similar examples of late seventeenth-century charkas, see K. Helenius, The Russian Charka: The Silver Vodka Cup of the Romanov Era, Helsinki, 2006, pp. 48-50, no. 20; also see A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silver, Fribourg, 1981, no. 93.