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Ivory Live Tour 2024 lots sold for €38,440
Jean Elysée PUIFORCAT (1897-1945)
Royan, the model created in 1934.
A 202-piece silver crockery set:
- twelve oyster forks
- twenty-four forks
- twelve spoons
- twenty-four knives, the blades signed
- twelve fish forks
- twelve fish knives
- one fish serving set
- twelve cheese knives, the blades signed
- one cheese knife (accident to the handle)
- twelve dessert forks
- twelve dessert spoons
- twelve fruit knives, blades signed
- twelve cake forks
- twelve ice-cream spoons
- twelve teaspoons
- twelve coffee spoons
- one pie server
- one sugar tong
- one salad server
- one stewing spoon
- one ladle
- a sauce spoon
Minerve. Goldsmith: Jean Elysée PUIFORCAT for the PUIFORCAT company
Art Deco period
Weight of the pieces: 9 kg 323 (in its original presentation case signed "Puiforcat - Paris")
The Royan model is identical to the Normandie model created in 1934 for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. The silver Royan model was used in the first-class restaurant on the Normandie liner, which sailed between Le Havre and New York, while the silver Normandie model was used in the other restaurants.
See original version (French)
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