A silver-gilt, cloisonné and en plein pictorial enamel cigarette case, Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1877

the front finely enamelled with a scene depicting a woman bringing a goblet to two men at a table outside, the reverse and sides enamelled with a geometric and scrolling design in green, blue, red and white, a crowned eagle at the centre of a roundel, the push-piece silver, struck to the interior with maker's mark in Cyrillic and the Imperial Warrant, 91 standard

length 12cm; 4 3/4 in.