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PROBABLY TOBOLSK, CIRCA 1770-1780
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A RARE RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CHARKA
PROBABLY TOBOLSK, CIRCA 1770-1780
Cylindrical, with leafy stalk-form handle applied with flowerheads, the sides nielloed with an Inuit figure holding a fish, houses, and pine trees in a Siberian landscape, the underside nielloed with a coat-of-arms of Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, the end of the handle further engraved with his Cyrillic cypher ‘DCh’, interior gilt, apparently unmarked
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) long, over handle
3 oz. 4 dwt. (99.5 gr.) gross weight
PROBABLY TOBOLSK, CIRCA 1770-1780
Cylindrical, with leafy stalk-form handle applied with flowerheads, the sides nielloed with an Inuit figure holding a fish, houses, and pine trees in a Siberian landscape, the underside nielloed with a coat-of-arms of Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, the end of the handle further engraved with his Cyrillic cypher ‘DCh’, interior gilt, apparently unmarked
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) long, over handle
3 oz. 4 dwt. (99.5 gr.) gross weight
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