Charles Louis Boehme
Soup Tureen
1794
Physical Qualities
Silver, 13 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (33.7 x 46.4 x 26.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.42
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
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. 82, ill. p. 83.
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Silver in Maryland", Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983. p.84, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Benskin, Elizabeth, and Suzy Wolffe. "Teacher's Guide to the American Collection". Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, pages 33 and 40.
David Zimmerman, "The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen" in The Magazine Antiques, May/June 2017, accessed online: https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/the-bouillabaisse-of-design-influences-on-an-early-american-silver-soup-tureen/
Markings: etched by hand: [107 o 10 b / 200 WV ] written by hand in black oil pencil: [24] stamped with maker's mark - "Boehme" in cursive (2x) above hallmark is stamped eagle w/outstretched wings, head facing proper right; shield in front of body, clutching arrows in Proper Left talon and olive branch in Proper Right talon
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