cup
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.644
- Description
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Drinking-cup (charka); silver parcel-gilt and nielloed; peach-shaped; handle and raised foot in form of stem and leaves; landscape with trees, houses and walking figure; six rosettes on foot, two on handle.
- Production date
- 1770-1780 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.85 inches
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Length: 3.45 inches
- Curator's comments
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For a similar pair of charki from the same large service made for Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, governor of Siberia from 1763 to 1781 in the Hillwood Museum, Washington, see A. Odom and L. Paredes Arend, A Taste for Splendor. Russain Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum, Alexandria, Virginia 1998, cat. 58. The silver foot is later but still old (A.Odom, Feb.1998).
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Cf. A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot (Washington DC 2011) 106.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.644