Sold
$88,200
Est
$18,000
-
$24,000
Live Auction
DESIGN
ARTIST
Gio Ponti
Size
Largest utensil: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) long
Description
Medium
Sterling silver, stainless steel.
Signature
Manufactured by Reed & Barton, Newport and distributed by Arthur Krupp, Milan. Each fork and spoon impressed Reed & Barton/STERLING, each hollow handle piece impressed REED & BARTON/MIRRORSTELE/STERLING HANDLE. Comprising 24 dinner forks, 24 salad forks, 24 cocktail forks, 24 dinner knives, 24 butter knives, 24 soup spoons, 24 teaspoons, 2 serving spoons, 2 slotted serving spoons, 2 cold meat forks, 2 ladles, 2 butter server knives, 2 sugar spoons, 2 pie servers, 2 cheese knives, 2 jelly servers and 2 olive forks (188).
Literature
"Nice Weather for Parties," Vogue, April 15, 1958, pp. 118-19
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2005, p. 245 for a drawing and an advertisement
William P. Hood and Jewel Stern, "The Diamond Pattern by Reed & Barton," Silver Magazine, May/June 2007, pp. 14-18, 20-22