Description
PUIFORCAT, Paris. Hammered silver tea and coffee service, the globular body, the handles facetted and isolated by ivory rings (elephantidae spp). Each piece rests on a pedestal. It includes a teapot, a coffee pot, a milk jug and a sugar bowl. Art deco style. Marked : Minerve Gross weight : 2916,3 g Height : 10,5 to 19 cm. Height: 10.5 to 19 cm The house of Puiforcat was founded in 1820 in Paris by the brothers Emile and Joseph-Marie Puiforcat and their cousin Jean-Baptiste Fuchs. This dynasty of goldsmiths crossed the 19th century and found its brilliance again with Jean Puiforcat (1897-1945), who seized the modernist revolution at once and froze it in his silver productions. Lamps, goblets and teapots now follow the geometric lines of his designs and accompany the social elite of the Roaring Twenties. We will quote, for example, the sacred vases of the chapel of the liner Normandie or his numerous collaborations with the artists of the Union of Modern Artists. Our coffee pot and our milk jug, with their simple and essential forms, draw their inspiration from primitive productions. We can thus quote the work of the goldsmith Etienne Lebret, contemporary of Louis XIV, who left us this pot "of a solid elegance, where one still feels the work of the hammer which confers to the metal a subtle vibration". Bibliography : Collective, Les grands orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X, 1965, p.44.
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PUIFORCAT, Paris. Hammered silver tea and coffee service, the globular body, the handles facetted and isolated by ivory rings (elephantidae spp). Each piece rests on a pedestal. It includes a teapot, a coffee pot, a milk jug and a sugar bowl. Art deco style. Marked : Minerve Gross weight : 2916,3 g Height : 10,5 to 19 cm. Height: 10.5 to 19 cm The house of Puiforcat was founded in 1820 in Paris by the brothers Emile and Joseph-Marie Puiforcat and their cousin Jean-Baptiste Fuchs. This dynasty of goldsmiths crossed the 19th century and found its brilliance again with Jean Puiforcat (1897-1945), who seized the modernist revolution at once and froze it in his silver productions. Lamps, goblets and teapots now follow the geometric lines of his designs and accompany the social elite of the Roaring Twenties. We will quote, for example, the sacred vases of the chapel of the liner Normandie or his numerous collaborations with the artists of the Union of Modern Artists. Our coffee pot and our milk jug, with their simple and essential forms, draw their inspiration from primitive productions. We can thus quote the work of the goldsmith Etienne Lebret, contemporary of Louis XIV, who left us this pot "of a solid elegance, where one still feels the work of the hammer which confers to the metal a subtle vibration". Bibliography : Collective, Les grands orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X, 1965, p.44.
