Lot 10
“Diamond” flatware service for 12
Lot Is Closed
Sold
$8,500
Est $6,000 - $8,000
Timed Auction
DESIGN: ONLINE AUCTION
ARTIST
Gio Ponti
Size
Dinner knife: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm) long
Description
PROPERTY OF A LADY

Medium
Sterling silver, stainless steel.
Signature
Manufactured by Reed & Barton, Taunton, Massachusetts. Forks, spoons, and sugar tong impressed Reed & Barton/STERLING and each hollow handle piece impressed REED & BARTON/MIRRORSTELE/STERLING HANDLE. Comprising 12 dinner forks, 12 salad forks, 12 dinner knives, 12 soup spoons, 12 teaspoons, 1 sugar tong (61).
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, cover, pp. 14-18, 20-22