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Jean-Élisée PUIFORCAT (1897–1945)
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Jean-Élisée PUIFORCAT (1897–1945)
See original version (French)
Estimate €12,000 - €18,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Jean-Élisée PUIFORCAT (1897–1945)
A silver lidded pot with a conical body resting on a circular, slightly stepped base that flares outwards, and a domed silver lid featuring radiating grooves around a circular, hollowed-out jade handle. A havana-coloured pouch bearing the maker’s mark.
Signed in full on the base; silversmith’s maker’s mark and hallmark on each piece.
Height: 24 cm – diameter: 20.5 cm
Exhibition: a vegetable dish of the same design was exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925.
History: the vegetable bowl from the 1925 exhibition was donated by Jean-Elisée Puiforcat to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. 25450.A)
Provenance:
Collection of Mr and Mrs Georges Masson; auction by Maître Picard, Paris, 26 January 1994, lot 125.
Bibliography:
Françoise Bonneville, Jean Puiforcat, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1986, p. 23 for a photograph of the display cases at the Puiforcat boutique in Paris, where a similar model—a variant of the model referenced here and reproduced on p. 87—can be seen on the top right-hand shelf.
Please contact the firm for condition reports.
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About the sale
Selected works from the 20th century
Auction location
Auction time
10/26/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 8958 - 38
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