COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1989.156.1-4
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name:
Rasch, Anthony
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places:
American; c.1778-1859 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT:
Anthony Rasch
Creator Name:
Chaudron, Jean-Simon
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places:
American, 1758-1846; b. France North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT:
Jean-Simon Chaudron
Title:
Tea and Coffee Service
Title Type:
preferred
View:
slightly angled view from above
Creation Date:
1809/12
Creation Start Date:
1809
Creation End Date:
1812
Materials and Techniques:
Silver and ebonized wood
Classification Term:
Silver
Subject Description:
4 piece service consisting of coffeepot, teapot; sugar basin, and cream pot; each with stepped, domed base with applied band at foot of roundels and leaves; bulbous body with repouse and chased decoration of overlapping pointed arches over bottom half; band of roundels and leaves larger in scale than base; handles cast in the form of a snake with wooden central sections on coffee and tea posts, and entirely silver on milk pot and sugar basin; snake tails curl on coffee and tea pots and plain on sugar basin and milk pot; engraved scales and cast acanthus leaf terminals; 2 part cast swan head spouts on tea and coffee pots with engraved feathers on head and neck; scotia molding joins neck to acanthus leaf attachment to body of pot; domed lids with small scale repouse and chased motif on body; pine cone or pineapple finial; narrow band of engraved leaves at edge of lids and at top of milk pot; lids hinged on tea and coffee pots; separate lid on sugar basin; integral pouring spout on milk pot; all pieces
Creation Place:
North and Central America,North America,United States,Pennsylvania,Philadelphia
Dimensions:
Coffee pot: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.) high; tea pot: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); cream pot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); sugar basin: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1989.156.1-4
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Endowment
Inscriptions:
Each piece marked on underside of base in banners: "CHAUDRON'S & RASCH" and "STER-AMER-MAN-" [Sterling American Manufacture]
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E18690.TIF
