Try: The Book of Old Silver, by Seymour B. Wyler. Several editions since
1937. Best wishes,
|))| Ellen Chapman
|((| University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Frechette, Mary wrote:
>
> Hi everyone – I’ve received this query from a researcher in Arkansas asking
> about late 18th century silver pattern books and three specific tureens. I
> have no particular expertise in this area, but I’m sure some of you do, or
> know scholars/curators who do. Perhaps our collective wisdom can help him –
> if you can, please either let me know, or respond directly to him and copy
> me.
>
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
>
>
> Suzy Frechette
>
> Head, Fine Arts Dept.
>
> St. Louis Public Library
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> Hello,
>
> I am researching the design sources for an American silver soup tureen made
> by Chaudron’s and Rasch in Philadelphia in 1811 (image attached) It is so
> nearly identical to a tureen by the little-known French silversmith, Louis
> Francois Delassus, made in Paris in 1787 (image also attached), as to raise
> the possibility that they were both made to the same, possibly published,
> design.
>
> A third, similar tureen, made in Paris in 1775 by Charles-Louis Auguste
> Spriman (which you can find here), was brought to the United States from
> Paris in early 1808 by James Bowdoin III. Thomas Jefferson had sent Bowdoin
> to Europe in the diplomatic service and the Spriman tureen he brought back
> may have influenced Jefferson’s choice when he ordered the tureens for the
> White House later that same year. (These tureens vanished at the burning of
> the White House in 1814.) In Jefferson’s order he specified:
>
> “Two silver tureens of the ordinary size and of the form numbered 1505 on
> the drawing sent, being the uppermost of the two forms on the paper.”
>
> The 1775 Spriman tureen and the 1787 Delassus tureen are two of many known
> examples of a style common in Paris between about 1760 and 1790, and would
> have been familiar to Jefferson from his years as minister of the United
> States to France from 1784 to 1789, when he was a popular dinner guest in
> the great houses of Paris. Whereas, the Chaudron’s & Rasch tureen is, to
> the best of my knowledge, a unique survivor in American silver.
>
> Simon Chaudron owned over four hundred volumes in French, and he and Rasch
> are known to have worked from published French designs. While it may seem
> like wishful thinking, it is possible that the “form numbered 1505”,
> referred to by Jefferson, is also the design to which Chaudron’s & Rasch
> were working.
>
> Are you aware of, or do you know of anyone who might to aware of, any
> publication, probably from Paris between about 1760 and 1790, which
> illustrates a tureen design similar to those shown in my attachments and
> link?
>
> Thanking you in advance for your consideration on this matter. I remain
>
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> David Zimmermann
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> Mary Frechette
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> Saint Louis Public Library
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