Christopher Hughes
Coffeepot
1769
Physical Qualities
Silver, wood, 12 1/8 x 5 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (30.8 x 13.3 x 22.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.58
Coffeepot made by Christopher Hughes, c. 1775. Silver, wood. The inverted pear shape of this coffeepot is set on a splayed foot. It has a cast spout with a molded shell at the base and a cast shell beneath the upper socket for the wooden handle. The domed cover has a grooved finial. The monogram "CHP" stands for the maker, Chrstopher Hughes and his wife "Peggy."
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD; George Hughes (grandson of the maker); Christopher Hughes Sr. (1744-1824) and Margaret "Peggy" Sanderson Hughes (1760-1825) [the maker and his wife], Baltimore, MD
J. Hall Pleasants: A Memorial Exhibition, p. 21
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 41, ill.
J. Hall Pleasants: A Memorial Exhibition, p. 21
Pleasants and Sill, p. 136 & pl. XXIX, no. 2
Inscribed: Monogram engraved on side: "CHP"
Markings: "CH" struck 3 times on bottom
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Willow Brook/Case 1
