Russian Silver-Gilt & Niello Snuff Box

Ivan Kaltikov
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reference 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

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.

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