Charles Louis Boehme
Bowl
1806-1816
Physical Qualities
Silver, 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 4 3/8 in. (14.9 x 14.9 x 11.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift from the Estate of Ellen Morton Schaeffer
Object Number
1927.10.9
Melon-mold design
Owned by Rev. Dr. Daniel Kurtz (born 1764) from Germantown, Pa., a pastor of the German Lutheran Church on Second Street, Baltimore, during the 1790's. This cream pot descended in his family to the donor.
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 94, ill.
Markings: "C.L. BOEHME" stamped on edge of pedestal foot. (defaced in order to obliterate)(see references) "STERLING" stamped on edge of pedestal foot.
