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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Rasch, Anthony Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: American; c.1778-1859 North and Central America,North America,United Sta Creator Active Place: North and Central America,North America,United Sta Creator Name-CRT: Anthony Rasch Creator Name: Chaudron, Jean-Simon Creator Dates/Places: American, 1758-1846; b. France North and Central America,North America,United Sta Creator Name-CRT: Jean-Simon Chaudron Title: Tea and Coffee Service Title Type: preferred View: slightly angled view from above Creation Start Date: 1809 Creation End Date: 1812 Creation Date: 1809/12 Creation Place: North and Central America,North America,United States,Pennsylvania,Philadelphia Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Silver Materials and Techniques: Silver and ebonized wood Dimensions: Coffee pot: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.) high; tea pot: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); cream pot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); sugar basin: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.) Inscriptions: Each piece marked on underside of base in banners: "CHAUDRON'S & RASCH" and "STER-AMER-MAN-" [Sterling American Manufacture] AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1989.156.1-4 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Endowment Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: 4 piece service consisting of coffeepot, teapot; sugar basin, and cream pot; each with stepped, domed base with applied band at foot of roundels and leaves; bulbous body with repouse and chased decoration of overlapping pointed arches over bottom half; band of roundels and leaves larger in scale than base; handles cast in the form of a snake with wooden central sections on coffee and tea posts, and entirely silver on milk pot and sugar basin; snake tails curl on coffee and tea pots and plain on sugar basin and milk pot; engraved scales and cast acanthus leaf terminals; 2 part cast swan head spouts on tea and coffee pots with engraved feathers on head and neck; scotia molding joins neck to acanthus leaf attachment to body of pot; domed lids with small scale repouse and chased motif on body; pine cone or pineapple finial; narrow band of engraved leaves at edge of lids and at top of milk pot; lids hinged on tea and coffee pots; separate lid on sugar basin; integral pouring spout on milk pot; all pieces AMICA ID: AIC_.1989.156.1-4 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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