Truncated-conical goblet in vermeil. Moscow, 1777. The body is engraved with three scenes: a woman carrying a fish-net, 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 Savateï 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 unidentified). Height: 12.8 cm; diameter: 10.2 cm (at neck) and 8 cm (at base); weight: 253 g Provenance: Michel Brodsky Collection. The Rogotnev family were merchants from the town of Slobodskoy in the province of Viatsk. The 1629 Slobodskoy town cadastre lists several Rogotnevs as "people of the suburb" (merchants). In 1677/1678, Fedor Ivanov Rogotnev of Slobodskoy and Grigory Ivanov Rogotnev of Viatsk paid taxes on goods at the Solvytchegodsk octroi. The following year, the same Grigory Ivanov Rogotnev was said to be from Slobodskoy when paying at the same octroi. In 1710, the census lists four Rogotnevs in Slobodskoy. Aleksandr Rogotnev co-signed, with Faddei Rogotnev in particular, a petition from the inhabitants of Slobodskoy for an annual procession to Slobodskoy with icons from the village of Kholonitzko-Ilinskoe in 1730; Savatei Rogotnev signed, along with other merchants, the instructions given by the inhabitants of Slobodskoy to deputy Pessiakov for the drafting of the new code of laws in 1767. Books of the Muscovite State Grant (Vol. III) in the 17th century. Moscow-Leningrad, 1951. Works of the scientific commission of the archives of the Vyatsk province. 1907, 1908 and 1909. Census of 1710: Siberian province: Slobodskoy suburb of Viatsk and its district: census book of stolnik Stepan Danilovitch Trakhaniotov (RGADA, fond 1209, series 1, dossier 1034, ff. 256-477). The town of Slobodskoy on the Viatka River was renowned for its fishing. The town's coat of arms, granted in 1781, features two crossed fishnets.