A FOUR-PIECE SILVER AND ROSEWOOD COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY

JEAN E. PUIFORCAT, DESIGNED IN 1937, FOR PUIFORCAT, POST-1937

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A FOUR-PIECE SILVER AND ROSEWOOD COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY
Jean E. Puiforcat, Designed in 1937, for Puiforcat, post-1937
design number 9078, comprising a coffee pot, teapot, creamer, sugar and tray
coffee pot 6.7/8in. (15cm.) high, tray 34in. (86.3cm.) long
the coffee pot and teapot with applied tags CAFE and THE on the handles, each lid stamped with maker's mark and French poinon, each base stamped JEAN E. PUIFORCAT with maker's mark and French poinoin, each tray handle stamped with maker's mark and French poinoin
gross weight 166.1 oz. (5165 gr.) (5)

来源

Christie's New York, December 12, 1992, lot 235

拍品专文

cf. "La Richesse Inventive de Puiforcat" in Mobilier & Décoration, March 1938, p. 99; Jean Puiforcat: Orfèvre Sculpteur, 1951, p. 19; Franoise de Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat, 1986, pp. 135 and 138-139; and Les Années 30 d'Anne Bony, 1987, p. 1035 for illustrations of the model. See Frederick R. Brandt, Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985, pp. 240-241, cat. no. 100 and Derek Ostergard, Art Deco Masterpieces, 1991, p. 33 for illustrations of an example of the model in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.