Tea and Coffee Service

1809–12

Jean-Simon Chaudron
American, born France, 1758–1846
Anthony Rasch
American, c.1780–1858
Philadelphia

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 decorative motifs. Together, the artisans created some of the most ambitious neoclassical silver in America, taking many of their decorative elements from French and English silver designs from the early nineteenth century, as well as motifs from Greek mythology.

Status: On View, Gallery 169
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jean-Simon Chaudron
Title: Tea and Coffee Service
Place: Philadelphia (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1809–1812
Medium: Silver and ebonized wood
Inscriptions: Marked on underside of each object, in banners: CHAUDRON'S & RASCH and STER-AMER-MAN- [Sterling American Manufacture]
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.)
Credit Line: Robert Allerton Endowment
Reference Number: 1989.156.1-4
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Marvin D. Schwartz “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (June 29, 1990), 1, 76–8 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 134–36, no. 55.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 42 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 42 (ill.).

With Firestone and Parson, Boston, by 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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