Set of silver dishes, 54 pieces, with olive tree frieze, some initialed, including:
- Two tureens with lid, handle shaped like an open pomegrenate
- two round dishes - O 27cm
- sauceboat and its silver case
- large round dish - O 30cm
- Square fruit dish, H 26XL 26cm
- Oval dish, H 45XL 30cm
- 12 soup plates
- 24 plates
- 11 dessert plates
Mercury hallmark (950%) and master silversmith's hallmark, each piece signed A. AUCOC
Total weight: 31000g approx.
Provenance:
- Former Serguei Ivanovitch Chtchoukine collection, by descent from an important French family (likely: Duke and Duchess of La Rochefoucault)
-Juge and Gerard Tasset auction, Angoulême, 18 February 1995
