Lot 38 · Modern Decorative Art + Design
JEAN E PUIFORCAT (1897-1945) An Extensive 'Bayonne' Pattern Silver Table Service, for the Morgan Family, New Yorkcirca 193024 Dinner knives (steel blades), 24 Dinner forks, 16 Dinner Spoons, 12 Fish Knives, 12 Fish Forks, 12 fruit knives (silver blades), 12 desert spoons, 24 lunch fork (13 with crest on the front; 11 with crest on the back), 12 lunch knives (steel blades), 12 coffee spoon, 11 butter paddles, pair of fish servers (2), pair of slice servers (2), pair of serving spoons (2), a sauce ladle (178 pieces of flatware in total), together with a sauce bowl on tray with ebonized wood handles, and three serving trays, each piece with engraved crest for the Morgan family and stamped 'Jean E Puiforcat', French mark for first standard silverlargest tray 17 3/4 x 12in (45 x 30.5cm)approximate total weighable 694oz (19,663grams)
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- Estimate
- $30,000–$50,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Bonhams — Modern Decorative Art + Design, New York · 17 December 2020
- Record ID
- TB-2026-682174
- Record
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Jean E. Puiforcat, JEAN E PUIFORCAT (1897-1945) An Extensive 'Bayonne' Pattern Silver Table Service, for the Morgan Family, New Yorkcirca 193024 Dinner knives (steel blades), 24 Dinner forks, 16 Dinner Spoons, 12 Fish Knives, 12 Fish Forks, 12 fruit knives (silver blades), 12 desert spoons, 24 lunch fork (13 with crest on the front; 11 with crest on the back), 12 lunch knives (steel blades), 12 coffee spoon, 11 butter paddles, pair of fish servers (2), pair of slice servers (2), pair of serving spoons (2), a sauce ladle (178 pieces of flatware in total), together with a sauce bowl on tray with ebonized wood handles, and three serving trays, each piece with engraved crest for the Morgan family and stamped 'Jean E Puiforcat', French mark for first standard silverlargest tray 17 3/4 x 12in (45 x 30.5cm)approximate total weighable 694oz (19,663grams). Bonhams, 17 Dec 2020, lot 38. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-682174.
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Jean E. Puiforcat, JEAN E PUIFORCAT (1897-1945) An Extensive 'Bayonne' Pattern Silver Table Service, for the Morgan Family, New Yorkcirca 193024 Dinner knives (steel blades), 24 Dinner forks, 16 Dinner Spoons, 12 Fish Knives, 12 Fish Forks, 12 fruit knives (silver blades), 12 desert spoons, 24 lunch fork (13 with crest on the front; 11 with crest on the back), 12 lunch knives (steel blades), 12 coffee spoon, 11 butter paddles, pair of fish servers (2), pair of slice servers (2), pair of serving spoons (2), a sauce ladle (178 pieces of flatware in total), together with a sauce bowl on tray with ebonized wood handles, and three serving trays, each piece with engraved crest for the Morgan family and stamped 'Jean E Puiforcat', French mark for first standard silverlargest tray 17 3/4 x 12in (45 x 30.5cm)approximate total weighable 694oz (19,663grams). Bonhams, 17 Dec 2020, lot 38. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-682174.
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