A set of six Russian silver-gilt teaspoons with spiral-twist stems and baluster terminals, the reverses of the fig-shaped bowls finely-nielloed with architectural vignettes surrounded by wriggle-work and scrolling foliage, with a pair of matching sugar tongs nielloed with scrolling foliage and with a vacant circular cartouche, in a fitted plush and satin-lined leather case gilt with initials, Vassilii Semenov, 1875, the box with printed retailer's name Ovtchenikov. (7)