Porringer
Porringer
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- Description
- Small, basin-bowl porringer with square rim and shallow bossed bottom; cast flowered-type handle with tongued or linguiform bracket is pierced with 10 voids and struck once on top with "RICHARD•L[EE]" in raised serif letters inside a serrated rectangle for Richard Lee Sr. or Jr. Sharp oval linen mark. Faint turning marks on underside of boss.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- porringer
- date made
- ca 1788 - 1830
- place made
- United States: New England
- United States: Massachusetts
- United States: New Hampshire
- United States: Vermont, Springfield
- United States: Massachusetts, Beverly
- place used
- United States: New England
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 13.6525 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0027.49
- accession number
- 1986.0027
- catalog number
- 1986.0027.49
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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