Trophy
Manufacturer
Jean Puiforcat
(French, 1897-1945)
Designer
Jean Puiforcat
(French, 1897-1945)
CultureFrench
Date1923
MediumSilver | Rock crystal | Lapis lazuli | Marble | Enamel
Dimensions10 3/4 × 21 11/16 in. (27.3 × 55.1 cm)
Other (Rock crystal decoration): 3 5/8 × 9 3/4 in. (9.2 × 24.8 cm)
Other (Bowl): 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) diameter
Other (Rock crystal decoration): 3 5/8 × 9 3/4 in. (9.2 × 24.8 cm)
Other (Bowl): 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) diameter
InscribedSigned "Jean E. Puiforcat"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number78.245
Not on view
Exhibition History"Treasures for the Table; Silver from the Chrysler Museum," 6/15-8/6/89
“The Jazz Age: Art and Decoration in 1920s America,” Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, April 9 – August 20, 2017; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, September 23, 2017 – January 14, 2018.
Published ReferencesFrancoise de Bonneville, JEAN PUIFORCAT (Paris: Editions du Regard, 1986), p. 276-8, ill. p. 278.
Essays by David Revere McFadden, entries by Mark A. Clark. TREASURES FOR THE TABLE: SILVER FROM THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM. Hudson Hills Press, New York, In Assocation with The American Federation of Arts and The Chrysler Museum. 1989: pp. 48, 51; no. 7.
Sarah D. Coffine and Stephen Harrison, _The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s_, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), pg. 41, fig. 66.
ca. 1925
François-Émile Décorchemont
