Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, a wider, slightly angled rim, and flat bottom; cast handle is pierced in a keyhole pattern with 11 voids and engraved on front "EMD" in conjoined foliate script letters facing out. Struck twice on bottom underside "J*M" in raised script in a rectangle, above and below the centerpoint, and once on back of handle "MOULTON" in incuse serif letters. No weight engraved.
label: Description
content: Maker is probably Joseph Moulton III (1744-1816) of Newburyport, MA, but the "MOULTON" stamp has also been associated with pieces made by his son, Ebenezer Noyes Moulton (1768-1824), working in Boston, MA, circa 1789-1820, and Newburyport, circa 1820-1824; without a first initial on the stamp, uncertainty exists as to which one or if both used it. Father and son are part of large family of Newburyport silversmiths than spanned several generations, including Joseph III's father William Moulton III (1720-c. 1793) and uncle Joseph Moulton II (1724-1795), as well as Joseph III's four sons, Ebenezer, William IV (1772-1861), Enoch (1780-1820), and Abel (1784-1840), as one grandson, Joseph IV (1814-1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383548
label: catalog number
content: 383548
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 19.685 cm x 13.335 cm