Silver-gilt or vermeil and cloisonne enamel, rectangular box featuring symmetrical, twisted wirework designs in opaque white and translucent blue, green, red and purple, including two, large, outward-facing C scrolls on the friction-fit, hinged lid and paired S scrolls forming heart-shaped motifs on all four sides of box. Semicircular tab at front center of lid to open. Inside lid is struck with "ИЗ" ("IZ") in raised Cyrillic letters in a rectangle next to a small, circular, intaglio kokoshnik or assay mark containing a left-facing profile of a woman in headwrap and "ИЛ" ("IL") at right. Bottom underside has same maker's mark and a larger, horizontal oval, intaglio, left-facing kokoshnik or assay mark with "84" at left.
Maker is Ivan Zakharov (Иван Захаров), Moscow, active c. 1856-1896. Assayer is Ivan Sergeyevich Lebedkin (Иван Сергеевич Лебедкин), Moscow, 1898-1914.