A French sixteen-piece silver-gilt service in Louis XVI style, Aucoc, Paris, circa 1900

A French sixteen-piece silver-gilt service in Louis XVI style, Aucoc, Paris, circa 1900,

armorial engraved, the dishes and the sauce-boat stamped AUCOC under the bases, re-gilt, comprising: - 2 square deep dishes (10 1/2in) - 3 circular dishes (13in and 11.1/2in) - 3 oval dishes (two 18in one 15in) - 1 oval sauceboat with 2 silver-gilt liners (101/2in) - 4 salt cellars with 3 blue glass liners - 2 pepper-mills (apparently without maker's mark) - 1 circular covered sugar-bowl with blue glass liner
10,716 g. ; 378 oz. excluding pepper mills and glass liners

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Ensemble de seize plats, saucière et autres pièces en vermeil de style Louis XVI, par Aucoc, Paris, vers 1900

gravées d'armoiries, les plats et la saucière estampillés AUCOC sous les bases, redorés, comprenant 2 jattes carrées (10 1/2 in., 26,67 cm), 3 plats ronds (13in. et 11 1/2 in. ; 33 cm et 29,2 cm ), 3 plats ovales (deux de 18in. et un de 15in. ; 45,72 cm et 38 cm), 1 saucière ovale avec 2 doublures en vermeil (10 1/2 in. ; 26,6 cm), 4 salières avec 3 doublures en verre bleu, 2 moulins à poivre (apparemment sans poinçon d'orfèvre), 1 sucrier rond couvert avec doublure en verre bleu
10.716 g. ; 378 oz. sans les moulins à poivre et les doublures en verre

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Condition Report:
In overall good condition.
Very small scratches commensurate with use.
Later gilt.
Fully marked under the base.

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Provenance:
Sotheby's, Paris, Important European Silver, Gold Boxes and Vertu, 10 April 2008, lot 16