JEAN PUIFORCAT (1887-1945)
JEAN PUIFORCAT (1887-1945)

MONACO FLATWARE MODEL NO.129, DESIGNED 1925, EXECUTED CIRCA 1930S

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JEAN PUIFORCAT (1887-1945)
MONACO FLATWARE MODEL NO.129, DESIGNED 1925, EXECUTED CIRCA 1930s
silver, comprising: - 7 dinner knives (stainless steel blades)
- 13 dinner forks
- 2 large serving forks
- 6 snail picks (steel ends)
- 11 grapefruit spoons
- large ladle
- cake slice
- 4 medium forks
- fish slice
- serving scoop
- 11 small round spoons
- 11 butter knives
- 12 large oval spoons
- 10 medium oval spoons
- medium sauce ladle
- slotted oval serving spoon
- 12 fish knives
- 12 medium forks
- pair of serving tongs
- 4 cake forks
- 10 teaspoons
- 2 large salad servers
- 2 small sala servers
salad servers 10¼ in. (26 cm.) long: 265 oz. (8215 gr.)
each piece stamped EP and with a Minerva's head poinçon, the handle of each engraved with the monogram SD, handles stamped PUIFORCAT PARIS FRANCE (136)
Literature
F. de Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat, Paris, 1986, p. 250 (design illustrated)
Y. Brunhammer, L'Exposition Cinquantenaire de l'Exposition de 1925, Paris, 1976, p. 101 (model listed)
Exhibited
Examples of this design were first presented at the Exposition Internationale, Paris, 1925.

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