Important Design

Jean Puiforcat

Cannes flatware

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May 28, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 50,000 EUR

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Description

Jean Puiforcat

Cannes flatware

Designed in 1928

Silver and steel

Comprising one hundred forty-seven pieces : twelve dinner forks, twelve dinner spoons, twelve dinner knives, twelve fish forks, twelve fish knives, one fish shovel, twelve dessert forks, twelve dessert spoons, twelve dessert knives, twelve ice cream spoons, twelve cake forks, one pie shovel, twelve teaspoons, one sugar tong, one tea strainer, one serving cutlery, one salad fork, one ladle, one fat and lean gravy ladle, one sauce spoon, five pieces of cocktail service

Each piece with the marker's mark E.P and the silver hallmark

Knives with steel blades stamped JEAN E.PUIFORCAT

Overall weight : 10280 g

This set is offered with a silver and steel can opener

Private collection, France

René Herbst, Jean Puiforcat : Orfèvre Sculpteur , Paris, 1951, p. 60

Françoise de Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat , Paris, 1986, p. 109 and 253

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