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  • We acquired this object.

1920

  • Work on this object began.

1930

  • Work on this object ended.

2017

2025

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Tea And Coffee Service

This is a tea and coffee service. It was retailed by Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. It is dated ca. 1925. Its medium is silver and rosewood.

Silver by Jean Puiforcat, also included in many museum and department store exhibitions, was among the fashionable items in the gifts department at Saks Fifth Avenue soon after the 1925 Paris Exposition. His use of faceted and globular forms influenced makers in silver and other media into the 1930s.

It is credited Lent by Dallas Museum of Art, The Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, gift of Patsy Lacy Griffith by exchange, 2002.17.1-.7.

  • Teapot Teapot
  • silver, walnut.
  • Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
  • 1982-21-1-a,b
  • Sugar Bowl Sugar Bowl
  • silver, walnut.
  • Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
  • 1982-21-3-a,b
  • Creamer Creamer
  • silver, walnut.
  • Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
  • 1982-21-4

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  • Compact
  • 14-karat gold, platinum, enamel, baguette-cut diamond (push-piece).
  • Lent by Cartier Collection, Inv. VC 75 A30.
  • 86.2016.7
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  • Coffee Service (USA)
  • chrome-plated metal, enamel.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
  • 1993-150-44
  • Trophy
  • silver, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, enamel, marble.
  • Lent by Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 78.245.
  • 46.2016.1

Its dimensions are

Kettle: 21.59 x 22.225 x 24.13 cm (8 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.), Teapot: 12.065 x 17.78 x 11.748 cm (4 3/4 x 7 x 4 5/8 in.), Coffeepot: 18.415 x 15.24 x 9.684 cm (7 1/4 x 6 x 3 13/16 in.), Creamer: 8.573 x 9.208 x 5.08 cm (3 3/8 x 3 5/8 x 2 in.), Waste bowl: 6.668 x 11.43 x 8.255 cm (2 5/8 x 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.), Sugar bowl: 9.525 x 12.065 x 9.684 cm (3 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 3 13/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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