Jean-Marie & Jean-Baptiste Lamothe
Teaspoon

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
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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