Gilt Teapot
Johan Henrik Blohm, Russian, active 1759 - died 1805
1791
Silver gilt with a wood handle
Overall: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Class of 1889
159.2.22423
Geography
Place Made: St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
On bottom: BLO No. 113
Publication History
Anne Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, Washington, D.C.: Hillwood Museum and Gardens Foundation, 2011, figure 63, pp. 92-93.
Provenance
Collected by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1866-1960); given to present collection, 1959.
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