RUSSIA, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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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 heron, sea monsters and Jonah and the whale, the pierced handle centring a coat-of-arms reserve flanked by foliage and dolphins; another hemispherical on three ball feet, the interior centring a medallion decorated with a battle scene with a Latin inscription 'A Domino Venit Pax Et Victoria', the pierced handle with a vacant reserve within scrolling foliage and dolphins, both marked under handle
3½ in. (9 cm.) and less
4.33 oz. (123 gr.) gross

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Lot Essay

For similar examples of late seventeenth-century charkas, decorated with Jonah and the whale, please 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. For a similar example set with a medallion, also dating to the turn of the eighteenth century, please see K. Helenius, op. cit., p. 39 and p. 53, no. 24.

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