Charles Louis Boehme
Cream Pot
1806
Physical Qualities
Silver, 5 3/4 x 3 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. (14.6 x 9.2 x 13 cm)
Credit Line
Gift from the Estate of Ellen Morton Schaeffer
Object Number
1927.10.11
Gilt lined; 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. 93, ill.
Markings: "C.L. BOEHME" stamped on edge of pedestal foot. "STERLING" stamped on edge of pedestal foot.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Chestertown Hallway/Case 3
