# Jean Puiforcat artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T21:24:13.894Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1897-08-05
- Death date: 1945-10-20
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Art Deco
- Common media: Silverwork and silversmithing, Sculpture, Decorative-object and timepiece design, Goldsmithing and cutlery production

## About Jean Puiforcat

Jean Puiforcat (1897–1945) was a French silversmith, sculptor, and designer associated with Art Deco. Authority and bibliographic records identify him primarily as Jean Puiforcat, while public sources also use Jean Elysée Puiforcat and Jean-Émile Puiforcat. Collectors encounter his name chiefly on designed objects in precious metal, including silver tea services, tableware, and related decorative pieces, as well as clocks and sculpture. Publicly documented examples place his work within interwar decorative-arts collecting, where object type, materials, construction, and attribution all help distinguish relevant comparables. His sculptural output included figurative statues, so the name can also appear outside silver and tabletop design. Because the available records span several media and name variants, reliable identification should connect the object, marks or inscriptions, date, and catalogue description to the correct designer before auction results are compared.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Puiforcat commonly encountered in the available public documentation include silver tea services, tableware, cutlery-related designs, clocks and other decorative objects, and figurative sculpture. Appraisal records should describe the precise object type, materials, dimensions, marks or inscriptions, date, condition, and stated attribution. These details are more useful for comparison than grouping every object under the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Jean Puiforcat's matched public-auction records appear in broad decorative-art and sculpture groupings. A useful appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable objects: the same medium and object type, similar dimensions and date, equivalent attribution, and comparable condition. Surface quality, restoration, signatures or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can also affect how a lot relates to recorded sales. Recent realized prices provide evidence, not an automatic prediction, and should be checked for differences in currency, sale date, and treatment of buyer premiums or fees. Broad category matches should be reviewed at lot level before they are used in a valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public-auction data is evidence for research and comparison, not a substitute for authentication, condition review, or a complete appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373280
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021975
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/028636015
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12043119p
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Puiforcat
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Puiforcat
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Puiforcat
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-puiforcat/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puiforcat,_Teeservice_Art_Deco.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_puiforcat_per_hour-lavigne,_orologio,_francia_1930_ca.jpg