Truncated conical goblet in vermeil. Moscow, 1777. The body is engraved with three scenes: a woman carrying a fish trap, a fawn (?) eating a leafy branch, and Hercules smothering the Nemean lion, all three in a plant frame. The neck is underlined by a band engraved with the inscription: "САВАТѢЯ АЛЕКСАНДРОВА СЫНА РОГОТНЕВА 1754 ГОдъ" (To Savatei son of Alexander Rogotnev the year 1754). Hallmarks: Moscow, 1777, assayer "А-А" (Andrey Andreev), alderman "АΘ/П" in a heart-shaped escutcheon (Fedor Petrov), and silversmith "А-М/К" (listed but not identified). Height: 12.8 cm; diameter: 10.2 cm (at neck) and 8 cm (at base); weight: 253 g The Rogotnev family is a merchant family from the town of Slobodskoy in the province of Viatsk. In 1629, several Rogotnevs were listed in the Slobodskoy city register as "people of the suburb" (merchants). In 1677/1678 Fedor Ivanov Rogotnev from Slobodskoy and Grigory Ivanov Rogotnev from Vyachesk paid taxes on goods at the Solvytchegodsk octroi, the following year the same Grigory Ivanov Rogotnev is said to be from Slobodskoy when paying at the same octroi. In 1710, in the census there are four Rogotnevs in Slobodskoy. Aleksandr Rogotnev is a co-signatory, together with Faddei Rogotnev, of a petition of the inhabitants of the town of Slobodskoy for an annual procession to Slobodskoy with the icons of the village of Kholoгnitzko-Ilinskoe. 1730. Savatei Rogotnev is a signatory, together with other merchants, of the instructions given by the inhabitants of Slobodskoy to the deputy Pessiakov for the elaboration of the new code of laws in 1767. Books of the Muscovite state grant (volume III) in XVII century. Moscow-Leningrad, 1951. Works of the scientific commission of the archives of the Vyachesk province. 1907, 1908 and 1909. Census of 1710: the province of Siberia: Slobodskoy suburb of Viatsk and its district: book of the census of the stolnik Stepan Danilovitch Trakhaniotov (RGADA, fund 1209, series 1, file 1034, ff. 256-477). The town of Slobodskoy located on the Viatka River was famous for fishing. The town's coat of arms granted in 1781 shows two crossed fish pots. Michel Brodsky Collection - lots from 92 to 154 [Russian art]