JEAN-ÉMILE PUIFORCAT (1897-1945)

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Pair of spherical mustard pots on bases in silver and vermeil.

Art Deco Period.

Each signed Jean PUIFORCAT PARIS and bearing the Master Goldsmith's mark and guarantee mark under the base ; the guarantee mark is also engraved under the lids.

Height: 6.5 cm – Diameter: 7 cm

Gross weight: 253 g

Exhibition and related works:

Puiforcat orfèvre, la maîtrise de l’argent – Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, from September 21st to December 1st, 2002. Identical models exhibited at this event (no. 163).

Bibliography:

- Art et Décoration – No. 8 of 1937. Two similar mustard pots, with their spoons, reproduced on page 239 in a photograph of a cocktail set.

- Françoise de Bonneville – Jean Puiforcat – Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1986. A soup tureen, decorated with festoons similar to our works, reproduced on page 94.

- Puiforcat orfèvre, la maîtrise de l’argent – Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (September 21st – December 1st, 2002), Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha Editions, Tokyo, 2002. Identical models listed and reproduced under catalogue number 163.