AN AMERICAN THREE-PIECE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH TRAY, DESIGNED BY DONALD COLFLESH
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AN AMERICAN THREE-PIECE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH TRAY, DESIGNED BY DONALD COLFLESH

MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1960

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AN AMERICAN THREE-PIECE SILVER COFFEE SERVICE WITH TRAY, DESIGNED BY DONALD COLFLESH
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1960
Comprising a coffee pot, covered sugar bowl, and cream jug, each elongated baluster form on circular base with angular handles, the coffee pot with ebony handle and finial, the covered sugar bowl with plume-form ebony finial, the circular tray with formica field, marked under bases, also marked 1461, 1463, 1464 and 1080 respectively, the three piece service with date mark for 1960
The coffee pot 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high, the tray 16 in. (40.6 cm.) diameter; 107 oz. (3,333 gr.) gross weight (4)

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Lot Essay

This coffee service was the centerpiece of Gorham's contemporary holloware collection, entitled CIRCA 70. The line, which included candelabra, bowls and a mixing pitcher, was the brainchild of Donald Colflesh, the firm's staff designer. Gorham's promotional literature reveals space travel was a source of inspiration, but these works also relate stylistically to the works of Frederick Miller of the Cleveland Institute of Art and the designs of Henning Koppel for Georg Jensen.
The coffee service was designed in 1958 and introduced in 1960. A tea and coffee service of the same design, now in the collection of Dallas Museum of Art, is illustrated and discussed in Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design, 2005, pp. 260-261.

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