Gilt Teapot

Johan Henrik Blohm, Russian, active 1759 - died 1805

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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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