AN EXTENSIVE AND RARE ART DECO FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT DINNER SERVICE
AN EXTENSIVE AND RARE ART DECO FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT DINNER SERVICE

MARK OF JEAN PUIFORCAT, PARIS, 1924-1947

细节
AN EXTENSIVE AND RARE ART DECO FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT DINNER SERVICE
MARK OF JEAN PUIFORCAT, PARIS, 1924-1947
Biarritz pattern, comprising:
Twenty-four silver-gilt dessert plates, 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) square
Twenty-four silver-gilt finger bowls, 4 3/8 in. (11.3 cm.) diameter
Four sauce tureens with attached stands and wood handles, 5½ in. (14 cm.) diameter
Four rectangular vegetable dishes, 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) long
Four large serving dishes, 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) square
Two fish platters, 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) long
Two meat platters, 19½ in. (49.6 cm.) long
1,603 oz. (49,871 gr.) excluding sauce tureens with wood handles (64)
来源
Ambassador Pedro Leão Velloso (1887-1947), Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations, 1944-1946, and Ambassador to the United Nations

See note to previous lot

拍品专文

A square dish in Biarritz Pattern matching those in the present service is illustrated in Françoise de Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat, 1986, p. 143.