21st Nov, 2024 11:00
European Works of Art, Objects & Silver
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A FRENCH ART DECO SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SET, MAISON PUIFORCAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1925
designed by Jean E. Puiforcat (1897-1945), decagonal bodies on circular piédouches, with rosewood angular handles, the covers with elongated hexagonal rosewood blocks under angular straps, the coffee pot and teapot with bayonet fitting covers, the covered sugar bowl and cream jug with gilt interiors, each stamped to underside 'JEAN E PUIFORCAT', maker's and 950 standard marks, coffee pot 16.5cm high, 2311g all in
A teapot of this model, dated 1925, is illustrated in Françoise de Bonneville, 'Jean Puiforcat', Paris, 1986, p.141. Also see another set of the same model, sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 October 2008, lot 38.
Sold for £6,800
designed by Jean E. Puiforcat (1897-1945), decagonal bodies on circular piédouches, with rosewood angular handles, the covers with elongated hexagonal rosewood blocks under angular straps, the coffee pot and teapot with bayonet fitting covers, the covered sugar bowl and cream jug with gilt interiors, each stamped to underside 'JEAN E PUIFORCAT', maker's and 950 standard marks, coffee pot 16.5cm high, 2311g all in
A teapot of this model, dated 1925, is illustrated in Françoise de Bonneville, 'Jean Puiforcat', Paris, 1986, p.141. Also see another set of the same model, sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 October 2008, lot 38.
Auction: European Works of Art, Objects & Silver, 21st Nov, 2024
The auction ‘European Works of Art, Objects and Silver’ is one of our biannual live sales offering a range of ceramics, sculpture and works of art, silver from around the world, and objects of vertu.
Highlights in this sale include finely painted KPM plaques, Russian Easter eggs, a marble figure of a young woman by Cesare Lapini, Persian and Iraqi silver, Art Deco Puiforcat silver, Victorian naturalistic silver and fifty lots of silver boxes and smallwork from a private London collection.
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