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Tea and Coffee Service

Artist Anthony Rasch and Company American, born Germany (Bavaria), circa 1778–1858

Date1818–1819

MediumSilver, wood

DimensionsTea Pot: (including finial) H. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); (handle to spout) W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); (body) D. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Coffee Pot: (including finial) H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm); (handle to spout) W. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); D. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
Sugar Bowl: (including finial) H. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); (handle to handle) W. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm); D. 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Creamer: H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); (lip to handle) W. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); D. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Waste Bowl: H. 6 1/4 in. (15.4 cm); W. 7 7/8 in. (20.0 cm); D. 4 in. (10.2 cm)

ClassificationsMetal

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Smith Jr. in honor of Dr. Robert Lee Humber

Object numberG.68.32.1/1-5

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ProvenanceCommissioned by the State of North Carolina for presentation to Udney Maria Blakeley (1815-1842), Philadelphia, PA, 1818-1819; to husband Dr. Joseph von Bretton (1797-1882), Baron von Bretton, Saint Croix, Danish West Indies,1842; to his daughter by second marriage Udney Maria Blakeley von Bretton (1848-1904), wife of Charles Ebenezer Treffry (1842-1924), Place, Fowey, Cornwall, Eng.; to son Col. Edward de Bretton Treffry (1869-1942), Place, Fowey, Cornwall, Eng.; to wife Anne Treffry, née Treffry (1891-1985), 1942; [private collection, Ireland, 1960?]; with Michael Harvard, Harvard Works of Art, Ltd., London, 1960; with Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1962; with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1967; sold to NCMA, 1967.Published ReferencesA. R. Newsome, "Udney Maria Blakeley," The North Carolina Historical Review 4, no. 2 (April 1927), discussion of the tea service begins on 163.

The Art Quarterly 32 (Autumn 1969), 339.

"Museum Gets Silver Service," Raleigh: The News & Observer, (November 22, 1968).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, nos. 1 and 2, (December 1969), listed 56, illus. (b-w installation shot of silver service and Sully portrait of Udney Maria Blakeley) 61.

David B. Warren, Katherine S. Howe and Michael K. Brown, Marks of Achievement: Four Centuries of American Presentation Silver (exhibition catalogue) (New York: published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), 112-113 illus. (b-w), fig. no. 134.

Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: published for the Baltimore Museum of Art by Abbeville Press, 1993), cat. no. 103, illus.

Judith B. Gura, "The Anthony Rasch Sauceboats: A High Point of American Neoclassical Style, Part 1," Silver Magazine (March/April 1997), illus. 30.

Lindley S. Butler, Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), illus. (b-w) 116.

John W. Coffey, entry for Tea and Coffee Service, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 404, illus. (color).

“News from the House in the Horseshoe,” Carolina Comments 60, no. 3 (July 2012), mentioned and illus., unpaginated. Publication mistakenly states that the work is in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of History.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, North Carolina Museum of History, period room installation, December 3, 1973-March 1982.

Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, "Marks of Achievement: Four Centuries of American Presentation Silver," September 18, 1987-January 3, 1988; Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 14-May 15, 1988; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 3-October 30, 1988, no. 134, illus. 112.

Baltimore, MD., The Baltimore Museum of Art, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993; Charlotte, NC., Mint Museum of Art, November 20, 1993-May 13, 1994; Houston, TX, The Museum of Fine Arts, May 1-July 24, 1994, no. 103, illus.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.

Sanford, NC, North Carolina Historic Sites: House in the Horseshoe, short-term loan for weekend festivities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, June 8-11, 2012.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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