Porringer
date: label: date made
content: before 1767
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, slightly angled rim, and large boss bottom with narrow rounded gutter; cast handle is pierced in a keyhole pattern with 13 voids and engraved on front "E+H" in serif letters facing in. Struck three times along rim exterior and bottom inside "PS" in raised serif letters inside a curvilinear shield. Weight engraved on bottom underside "oz / 8=8". Centerpoint on bottom underside.
label: Description
content: Maker is Philip Syng, Jr. (1703-1789); working, 1742-1772. Born in Cork, Ireland, and emigrated with family to Philadelphia, PA, in 1714.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0466.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0466
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0466.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.335 cm