Teapot
Charles Louis Boehme
(about 1774–1868)
about 1800–05
Object PlaceBaltimore, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Credit LineGift of Miss Martha May Eliot, M.D., and Miss Abigail Adams Eliot, E.D.D.
Accession number1971.309
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
ProvenanceBuhler Entry: John May, Jr. (1778-1823) whose emigrating ancestor of the same name was born in England in 1590. He is recorded to have traveled extensively and in 1806 married Ann Gordon Reed. She died the following year when he went to the Cape of Good Hope where he was in the British military service. He returned to Boston about 1822 and died the following year. The tea set descended to be given by the heirs of his brother, Dr. Frederick May.
