Jean-Marie & Jean-Baptiste Lamothe
Teaspoon

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Maker Jean-Marie & Jean-Baptiste Lamothe (American, active 1824–1846)American, active 1824–1846

CultureAmerican

Titles

Teaspoon

Datec. 1824–1846

Made inNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States

MediumSilver

Dimensions5 11/16 in. (14.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Junius F. Estill, Jr.

Object numberB.81.7.2

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

METALWORK

DescriptionJean-Marie and Jean-Bartiste Lamothe were members of a silversmithing family who fled the sugar-producing French colony of Sainte-Domingue (now Dominican Republic and Haiti) in the wake of an uprising and revolt of enslaved people that began in 1791. They went first to Cuba. When Cuba expelled the refugees in 1809 and 1810, the Lamothes, like many from Sainte-Domingue, settled in New Orleans.
ProvenanceP. O. Chaler (b. c. 1821), Natchitoches, Louisiana; given to his niece Lise Chaler Rachel; given to Misses Addie and Ivy Tanzin; given to Mrs. Francis Robicheaux; [Mary Reece, Lake Charles, Louisiana]; purchased by MFAH, 1981.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Engraved: P.O.C. [P.O. Chaler]

Mark of Jean-Marie & Jean-Pierre Lamothe [Mackie, Bacot, and Mackie 1980, p. 126]

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