TEAPOT FROM A TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
Creator(s): Boin-Taburet (Firm) , Georges Boin (Silversmith)
Currently in storage
About this object
The various motifs on the tea pot are repeated on the other pieces- coffee pot, tea urn, creamer, sugar bowl, slop bowl. Their shapes are in general like an urn- narrow at the top with curved gadrooning, bulbous below with chased floral swags round-about. An oval medallion on each topped by a ribbon bow, containing an interlaced monogram, scrolled feet and handles, domed lids with pineapple finials.
- Object name:
- TEAPOT FROM A TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
- Made from:
- Silver gilt
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- c. 1889
- Size:
- 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.303.6
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK Inscribed "BOINTABURET A PARIS" The mark of Georges Boin (1849-1911)on a lozenge; Minerva's head- silver guarantee for large articles, in use from 1838. The mark created for silverware for the French Exhibition in Moscow of 1891.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973