Important 20th Century Design

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Lot 656
  • 656

Porter Blanchard

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Description

  • Porter Blanchard
  • flatware service

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    comprising: twelve dinner knives, twelve  dinner forks, twelve  fish knives, twelve  salad forks, twelve  cocktail forks, twelve  ice cream forks, twelve  butter spreaders, twelve  dessert spoons, twelve  teaspoons
    108 pieces

    signed with the full name and marked sterling on each piece except for 7 dinner knives 

  • silver and lucite

 

Catalogue Note

Porter Blanchard settled in Burbank, California and worked with his father and brother under the name of Blanchard Brothers.  He started with traditional, colonial revival services, but by 1930 was producing modernist forms inspired by the Bauhaus.  In 1924, he helped to organize the Arts and Crafts Society of Southern California.  In 1933, he opened a retail shop at 6605 Sunset Boulevard and continued in business until his death in 1973.