A gem set silver tcharka in the Old Russian style,
by Carl Fabergé,

modelled as a Folkloric Russian figure holding a bag in his right hand, his
outstretched arm supporting the front of the bowl and a highly
stylised fence with organic posts supporting its back, which is set
with a cabochon emerald and sapphire and gilded within.

Moscow Workshops, 1896-1908,
partial inventory number 15157.

Height 6.8 cm.

An original black and white Fabergé photograph of the tcharka is held
in the Wartski archive

The original black and white Fabergé photograph of the Tcharka.

Reverse of the Photograph

On the reverse of the photograph written in ink is

N. S. 15157

Small Tcharka
with man's head

silver & chiselled oxyde
with different stones,

old Russian style,

diameter = 2 1/2 inches,
height = 3 - "-

xdm.-

net roubles 100- (in pencil)