Wood Charcoal Heating Traditional Russian Samavar ,late 1800s

Antique Brass Russian Samovar Award Winning With Award Marks Dating From 1800's And Makers Mark

Used for heating water. Wood charcoal is placed inside the tube within.Then it is lighted using Kerosine,then wter is added to its proper place. Hot water is poured into a kettle and tea leaves are added.
It is left on top to keep hot. To serve tea, small amount is poured into a Class cup and hot water is added from Samavar .
It is made of Brass and weights 7 lbs and 4 Oz. It is 16 " tall and 12 " Wide. It looks like it can hold about 2 to 3 liter of water.
Here is a short History of Samavar
This item was uses as Decorative Light for years, It has been disassembled and put in its original look and use.The Material used will be added free of the charge ( last Picture) There is a small hole for wire at the bottom of Samavar.

History
The samovar's precursor was the sbitennik, which was used for heating sbiten, a hot winter drink of honey and spice. A sbitennik looked like a metal teakettle fitted with a heater pipe and legs. Eventually samovars replaced them.
In the late eighteenth century, a Russian gunsmith, Fedor Lisitsyn, set up a small workshop south of Moscow, in the city of Tula, the heart of the Russian defense industry. Lisitsyn's workshop was the first to produce charcoal-burning samovars industrially and had tremendous success. Shortly afterward, many competing samovar factories started operations nearby. By the 1830s, Tula established itself as the capital of samovar manufacturing.

Samovars from Tula
In the nineteenth century, samovars became iconic of Russian tea culture, associated with all levels of Russian society from the palace of the tsars to the humblest of homes it became inseparably bound to the Russian way of life. Classics of Russian literature, like those of authors Pushkin, Gogol, and Chekhov, regularly mention samovars. Chekhov even coined the idiom: "To take one's own samovar to Tula." This phrase is still understood and occasionally used by most Russians, with a meaning similar to "carry coals to Newcastle" in Great Britain.
In the second half of the century, samovar manufacturing took root in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and some industrialized parts of Siberia and the Ural region. However, Tula retained its leading role in this trade. By that time, four shapes of samovars had became traditional: cylindrical, barrel-like, spherical, and the beautiful samovar vaznoy resembling the ancient Greek vase krater.
The beginning of the twentieth century was marked by various attempts at innovation. The traditional heating method was challenged by petroleum, kerosene, natural gas, and other means of heating. However, these models proved unpopular, due to the odor of the fuels and the dangers of fire and explosion.

Consistent with age and use.

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