TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CHARKI
Lot 357

TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CHARKI

RUSSIA, LATE 17TH/ EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 2,750

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TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CHARKI
RUSSIA, LATE 17TH/ EARLY 18TH CENTURY
One, hemispherical on spreading circular foot, the interior repoussé and chased with a phoenix and vegetation, with a pierced handle, indistinctly marked under handle and with French import mark; another hemispherical on spreading circular foot, centring a repoussé mask of a boy, with two handles, apparently unmarked
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) wide and smaller
2.7 oz. (85 gr.)

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, p. 39 and pp. 46-47, nos. 15-18.