Art Institute of Chicago
Teapot
Obadiah Rich
- Date
- 1848
- Medium
- Silver and wood
- Culture
- Boston
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Made in the Rococo revival mode by Boston silversmith Obadiah Rich, this teapot includes repoussé ornament and asymmetrical cartouches. On one side, a cartouche is inscribed with the date of the teapot and the initials “RL” and “LL,” presumably for the Boston owners of this vessel. On the other side, a laborer carrying a yoke laden with baskets of produce walks in a lush landscape, likely that of the tropical West Indies.
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- Object type
- AAT300411548
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