Nielloed silver-gilt snuff-box, the composition on the cover depicts a mounted officer and a cossack in a fluvial landscape with a city in the background; the the reverse shows a city wall and ships; the sides are nielloed with an architectural frieze. A similar box by Kaltikov is in the collection of the State Historical Museum in Moscow.
Russian Silver-Gilt & Niello Snuff Box
Ivan Kaltikovreference number: RS_061
1833
silver
length: 8.5 cm
maker’s mark: Cyrillic initials I.V. of Ivan Kaltikov
assay’s mark: Cyrillic initials N.D. of Nicholai Dubrovin
assay mark of Moscow, 1833
silver standard: 84 zolotnik