Live Auction 12022Russian Art
A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA
Lot 347

A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA

MARK OF PETR IVANOV, MOSCOW, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 10,000

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A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA
MARK OF PETR IVANOV, MOSCOW, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Circular, on three claw-and-ball feet, with a shaped handle, the body, interior and handle finely engraved and nielloed in the Turkish style with leaves and flowers amidst foliage, marked under handle
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) wide
2 oz. (62.5 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; also see A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silver, Fribourg, 1981, pp. 92-93.