Charles Louis Boehme
Cream Pot
c. 1812
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
Echoes of the simple neoclassical helmet-shaped pitcher on view nearby can be detected in this heavier, Empire-style pitcher. Here, the lower half of the pot is an oval melon shape, set on a low oval foot. An engraved decorative band circles the pot above the heavily fluted bottom. The interior is gilded, a luxurious touch that helped preserve open vessels from staining and corrosion.
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
