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Jean Elysée Puiforcat (French 1897-1945) - An Art Deco four-piece silver tea and coffee set, sponsor mark for Elkington & Co, Birmingham 1936, comprising a coffee pot, teapot, cream, and sugar, of ribbed tapering conical form, with ebonised rosewood handles and finials, no. 38020, 72ozt gross, coffee pot 18cm high (4)
Literature: Illustrated in, F de Bonneville, Puiforcat, p.131 Bliss, Simon. 'Thoroughly modern: reflections on the work of Jean Puiforcat'. The Silver Society Journal, vol. 15, 2003, pp. 141-49 Benton, Tim, Manuel Fontán del Junco and María Zozaya, eds. Modern Taste. Art Deco in Paris 1910 - 1935. Catalogue of the exhibition in Madrid: Fundación Juan March, March 26 - June 28 2015. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2015 For a similar example, see the V&A, Museum No. CIRC.521&A-1974 According to the V&A Museum, this service is a faithful copy by the Birmingham manufacturer Elkington, of a Puiforcat design first produced in 1936. The design appears in the Elkington pattern books although no acknowledgement is made to the source. There is no evidence to suggest whether this is an unofficial copy or whether it was made under licence to Puiforcat

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