MARK OF PORTER BLANCHARD, CALIFORNIA, MID-20TH CENTURY

Name: AN AMERICAN PORTER BLANCHARD 'CAPRI' PATTERN PART-FLATWARE SERVICE
Brand: MARK OF PORTER BLANCHARD, CALIFORNIA, MID-20TH CENTURY
Price: 4800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 6,000

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AN AMERICAN PORTER BLANCHARD 'CAPRI' PATTERN PART-FLATWARE SERVICE

MARK OF PORTER BLANCHARD, CALIFORNIA, MID-20TH CENTURY

Price Realised GBP 6,000

Comprising: fourteen table forks, twelve table knives, twelve salad forks, twelve dessert spoons, thirteen dessert forks, eleven butter knives, twelve soup spoons, sixteen tea spoons and one ice-cream spoon, the knives with steel blades, marked on handles 'STERLING / PORTER BLANCHARD / HAND MADE', including twenty-nine marked 'STERLING ORNARE', in a wood box
The table knives 9¹⁄₂ in. (24.2 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Porter George Blanchard (1886-1973) was an American silversmith considered to be part of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
He trained in his father's workshop, George Porter Blanchard, in Gardner, Massachusetts. In 1923, Blanchard moved to Burbank, California, where he established a studio for silversmithing before moving to Pacoima in the 1940s where he worked until his death in 1973. Between the 1930s and 1950, he operated a shop in Hollywood.
His daughter Alice Blanchard married Lewis Wise, who ran the Porter Blanchard Silversmiths business, in Calabasas, California where all flatware was made from 1955, while the holloware was made at Blanchard's Pacoima home.
Blanchard's works are in the collections of various museums, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.