Of typical form, the lid with fruited finial and the handle with knob-form thumb piece, the whole decorated with scrolling foliate motifs in niello work, the sides engraved with three Old Testament scenes of David and Beersheba, Daniel in the Lion's Den, and Joseph relaying his dream to Pharaoh, within cartouches and with related slavonic inscriptions, separated by classical trophies on a conforming shaped and stepped niello and parcel gilt base.