'Diamond' Flatware Service, designed 1958

Details

GIO PONTI (1891-1979)
'Diamond' Flatware Service, designed 1958
sterling silver, stainless steel blades
comprising 106 pieces:
twelve dinner knives
twelve butter knives
twelve dinner forks
twelve salad forks
twelve soup spoons
twenty-four tablespoons
twelve parfait spoons
1 cake knife
1 cheese knife
1 sugar server
1 tomato server
1 olive/pickle fork
1 butter server
1 serving spoon
1 serving fork
1 slotted serving spoon
1 soup ladle
largest: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
each marked Reed & Barton STERLING
knife blades marked REED & BARTON MIRRORSTELE STERLING HANDLE
5,427.2 grams (approximate weighable silver)

Literature

J. Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, New Haven, 2005, p. 245

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Please note this lot comprises of 106 pieces.

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Lot Essay

To introduce the 'Diamond' flatware service Reed & Barton organized one of the largest advertising promotions in company history, a special reception was held at the Plaza Hotel where the pattern was presented to the leading names of the press, radio and television stations.

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