Aucoc (circa 1880) An important 54-piece silver platerie service with olive tree frieze decoration, some pieces engraved, comprising: - a soup tureen and a covered stock pot with a pomegranate-shaped grip - two round dishes - Ø 27cm - a sauceboat with silver lining - a large round dish - Ø 30cm - a square fruit bowl, H 26×W 26cm - an oval dish, H 45×W 30cm - twelve soup plates - twenty four dinner plates - eleven dessert plates Mercury head hallmark (950‰) and master goldsmith's hallmark, each piece signed A. AUCOC Total weight: 31000g approx. Provenance : - Former Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin collection, descended from a great French princely family (probably: Duc et Duchesse de la Rochefoucault) - Sale Juge et Gérard Tasset, Angoulême, 18 February 1995