Important Design

Jean Puiforcat

Cannes flatware

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May 20, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

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Description

Jean Puiforcat

Cannes flatware

Designed in 1928, our flatware executed circa 1939

Silver and steel

Comprising one hundred and twelve pieces : twelve dinner forks, twelve dinner spoons, twelve dinner knives, twelve fish forks, twelve fish knives, two fish shovels, twelve dessert forks, twelve dessert spoons, twelve dessert knives, six coffee spoons, one sugar tong, one serving fork, one serving knife, one sauce spoon, four pieces of cocktail service

Each piece with the maker's mark E.P and the silver hallmark

Knives with steel blades stamped JEAN E.PUIFORCAT

Net weight : 6670 g

Received as a wedding present in 1939, then by descent

Private collection, Europe

Acquired from the above by the present owner

René Herbst, Jean Puiforcat, orfèvre-sculpteur, Paris, 1951, p. 60

Françoise de Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat, Paris, 1986, p. 109 and 253

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