GIO PONTI (1891-1979)

Lot 71
07.12.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105292
Lot 71 | GIO PONTI (1891-1979)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
GIO PONTI (1891-1979)

'Diamond' Flatware Service, designed 1958

sterling silver, stainless steel blades

comprising 240 pieces:

twenty-four dinner forks

twenty-four dinner knives

twenty-four salad forks

twenty-four ice cream forks

twenty-four cocktail forks

twenty-four oval soup spoons

twenty-four teaspoons

twenty-four grapefruit spoons

twenty-four butter spreaders

two salad servers

two serving spoons

two pierced serving spoons

two gravy ladles

two cream ladles

two cold meat forks

two sugar serving spoons

two butter serving knives

two jelly servers

two cake/pie servers

two pickle/olive forks

two lemon forks

largest: 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm)

each marked Reed & Barton STERLING

knife blades marked REED & BARTON MIRRORSTELE STERLING HANDLE

8,932.8 grams (approximate weighable silver)





Literature

"Nice Weather for Parties," Vogue, April 15, 1958, pp. 118-119

J. Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2005, p. 245

W. P. Hood and J. Stern, "The Diamond Pattern by Reed & Barton," Silver Magazine, May/June 2007, cover, pp. 14-18, 20-22

S. Licitra, Gio Ponti, Cologne, 2021, pp. 40 (for a drawing of this design), 69, 291
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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