comprising a covered horn-form urn with tap and twelve tapering cylindrical beakers, each cast with mounted and armed bogatyri riding through coniferous mountain landscapes, gilt interiors, the urn on later circular marble base, struck with unrecorded maker's mark S.B (Cyrillic), 84 standard

Excellent condition. A few of the beakers with minor dents to the bottom rim and all with very light scratches to the undersides. The interior gilding worn, in places to the silver.
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For a similar drinking set by this maker, please see Sotheby's New York, 16 June 1988, lot 337, and compare with the punch service in similar taste by him which sold in the same auction, lot 338, and the coffee service which sold, Christie's New York, 24 April 2009, lot 148.