Tea and Coffee Service
1809–12
Medium
Silver and ebonized wood
Dimensions
Coffee pot: 27.9 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm (11 3/4 × 12 × 6 1/2 in.); Tea pot: 25.4 × 30.5 × 12.7 cm (10 1/8 × 12 × 5 7/8 in.); Cream pot: 17.8 × 15.2 × 10.2 cm (7 1/4 × 6 1/4 × 4 in.); Sugar bowl: 22.9 × 22.9 × 12.7 cm (9 × 9 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
tea service
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74065
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Born in France, Jean-Simon Chaudron emigrated to Haiti in 1780, where he lived for thirteen years, before moving with his new wife to Philadelphia. By 1799 he was established as a silversmith and formed a partnership with Anthony Rasch, a Bavarian immigrant who had trained as a silversmith in Germany, in 1809. Utilizing technical advances that developed during the first decades of the nineteenth century, Chaudron and Rasch were able to produce a number of objects using many of the same decorativ...