'Diamond' Flatware Service, designed 1958

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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
H. Gomez, El Cerrito: La Obra Maestra de Gio Ponti en Caracas, Caracas, 2008, p. 292
S. Licitra, Gio Ponti, Cologne, 2021, pp. 40 (for a drawing of this design), 69, 291

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Lot Essay

To introduce the 'Diamond' flatware service Reed & Barton organized one of the largest advertising promotions in company history, a special reception was held at the Plaza Hotel where the pattern was presented to the leading names of the press, radio and television stations.

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