REF NO : B73326

Maison Puiforcat

A Fine Neoclassical Style ‘Percier’ Pattern Silver-Gilt Canteen

France, 19th Cenury

£5,800

A Fine Neoclassical Style 'Percier' Pattern Silver-Gilt Canteen By Maison Puiforcat. The set set comprises 12 forks, 12 place settings, 12 fish knives,...

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REF NO : B73326

Description

A Fine Neoclassical Style ‘Percier’ Pattern Silver-Gilt Canteen
By Maison Puiforcat.

The set set comprises 12 forks, 12 place settings, 12 fish knives, 4 serving spoons and 12 large 12 small knives.

The neoclassical inspired Percier design was one of Puiforcat’s most successful and included stiff-leaf edged borders and anthemions.

French, Nineteenth Century

Date

19th Cenury

Origin

France

Medium

Gilt-Bronze

Maison Puiforcat

Maison Puiforcat was founded in 1820 by Émile Puiforcat and his two cousins on rue Chapon, in the Marais, in Paris.

The company specialised in cutlery shop and began evolving towards the high-end of the silversmith’s trade in the late nineteenth century with Louis-Victor Puiforcat, recreating eighteenth-century masterpieces from his collection that are now exhibited at the louvre museum in Paris. His son Jean was named a master silversmith in 1920. Immersed in the wave of artistic change that characterised the period between the wars, he was one of the founders of the Union des artistes modernes in 1929, and was a friend of René Herbst, le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Chareau.

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