Porringer
Porringer
- Description
- Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, angled rim, and boss bottom with flat gutter; cast handle is pierced in a keyhole pattern with 11 voids and engraved on front "G / I*M" in shaded serif letters facing out. Struck once on back of handle "J.Clarke" in raised script in a rounded rectangle. Tiny centerpoint on bottom inside and underside. No weight engraved.
- Maker is Jonathan Clarke (1706-1766); working in Newport, RI, 1734-1755, and Providence, RI, 1755-1766.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1730-1766
- maker
- Clarke, Jonathan
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 19.3675 cm x 13.335 cm
- ID Number
- DL.383491
- catalog number
- 383491
- accession number
- 162866
- Credit Line
- Estate of Arthur Michael
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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