Important TEA/COFFEE service in solid silver, model with a flat bottom, with pinched ribs, each piece is chiseled with a berain decoration, interlacing on amati background and gadroon borders, zoomorphic spouts. It is composed of a coffee maker, a tea pot, a vermeil interior sugar bowl, an interior vermeil milk jug, a large samovar with its burner and its vermeil interior silver bowl. The service is placed on its scalloped tray, in silver metal, same engraved decoration of interlacing, amati background and edged with a gadroon.

Approximate dimensions and weight:

             Teapot height 20 cm - 972 grs

             Coffee pot: height 23 cm - 896 grams

             sugar bowl: height 18 cm - 644 grams

             milk jug: height 9 cm - 256 grams

             Samovar: height 43 cm - 3380 grams

             bowl: height 6.5 cm - 292 grams

             burner: height 8 cm - weight 184 grams

PLATEAU : length 70 cm - width 50 cm - height 2 cm

Material: 1st grade silver

Hallmark: MINERVA

Period: late 19th century

goldsmith: A. AUCOC

Origin: FRANCE/PARIS