Charles Louis Boehme
Salt Dish
1799-1809
Physical Qualities
Silver, 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (8.3 x 14 x 6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.43
This elegant footed salt dish and its nearby companion [#15] typify the elegant neoclassicism practiced by Charles Louis Boehme at his best.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 87, ill.
Markings: stamped: Sterling, C L BOEHME scratched: WV 133
On View at the BMA
