Milk jug

This service is a faithful copy by the Birmingham manufacturer, Elkington of a Puiforcat design first produced in 1936. The design appears in the Elkington pattern books although no acknowledgement is made to the source. There is no evidence to suggest whether this is an unofficial copy or whether it was made under licence to Puiforcat. Jean Puiforcat was a French silversmith, designer and sculptor. After service in World War I, he joined the family firm of silversmiths, working as an apprentice and designer. Concurrently he studied sculpture with Louis-Aimé Lejeune (1884–1969). Puiforcat exhibited continuously from 1920 to 1937 and worked independently from 1922. He designed silver objects

Milk jug · Birmingham · 1936-1937. Silver, rosewood handle, parcel gilt. By Puiforcat, Jean Elisée. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.