A group of six silver-mounted ceramic ashtrays, Kuznetsov, Moscow, 1869

each of flattened round form, two ashtrays in each colour of forest green, dark terracotta and yellow, mounted with silver rims, five of which are chased and engraved with a leaf-tip motif, the last chased and engraved with a Greek key pattern, all impressed on the base with maker's mark in Cyrillic and dated 1869, the sixth struck with maker's initials AE, all 84 standard

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diameter of each 8.3cm; 3 1/4 in.