A PEAR-SHAPED PARCEL-GILT AND NIELLO MOCHA-POT, on raised circular foot, the body engraved with panels of scrolling foliage and wave ornament over a matted ground, rising curved spout and domed cover with similar decoration and baluster finial, by P. Ovtchinnikov with imperial warrant (Goldberg 958) assaymaster A. Svetschin, Moscow, 1868; and a tapering circular parcel-gilt and niello sugar-bowl and cover with circular tapering finial, the body decorated with urns and ribbon swags and ovals centred with figures and architectural vignettes over a wave-pattern, the slightly domed cover with ribbon-tied laurel swags over a similar ground, with two openformed scroll handles, assaymasters mark only for Alexej Vichljajev, Moscow, 1790