A RUSSIAN GILDED SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER, MARKED SENIK IN CYRILLIC, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1814
the body ornately decorated with views of men in country landscapes in niello, surrounded by festoons of lush flowers and mounds of fruit surmounted by exotic birds, all against a striped and checkered chased ground, height: 8 1/2 cm (3 1/4 in.), 84 standard