17TH CENTURY
Details
A Silver-gilt and Enamel Charka
17th century
The exterior chased and engraved with floral scrolls within trefoils with garlands at intervals enriched with blue and green enamel, interspersed with a lion and unicorn, stag and rabbit, and two birds, all feeding from a tree, the border engraved with the Russian inscription 'Charka of an honest man, drink from it to your health, glorifying God and praying long life for the Tsar', the base of the bowl with applied roundel with geometric scoll motif with border inscription 'He maintains his reason who drinks and looks not ...', on speading foot
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) wide including handle
98 gr.
17th century
The exterior chased and engraved with floral scrolls within trefoils with garlands at intervals enriched with blue and green enamel, interspersed with a lion and unicorn, stag and rabbit, and two birds, all feeding from a tree, the border engraved with the Russian inscription 'Charka of an honest man, drink from it to your health, glorifying God and praying long life for the Tsar', the base of the bowl with applied roundel with geometric scoll motif with border inscription 'He maintains his reason who drinks and looks not ...', on speading foot
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) wide including handle
98 gr.
Provenance
Lubovich Collection
Literature
Michel van Rijn (editor), Icons and East Christian Works of Art (n.p., n.d.), p.160, illustrated p.162, p.193
Exhibited
London, Belgrave Square, Russian Art Exhibition, 1935, no.183