Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1725
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, angled rim, and boss bottom with flat gutter; cast handle is pierced in a geometric pattern with 16 voids and engraved on front "B / D+E" in shaded serif letters facing in. Front of bowl is engraved with a crest on wreath depicting a right (dexter) arm cuffed holding a dagger or sword erect proper with a laurel wreath suspended from its tip; the gothic or Old English letters "H M\c K" are below. Struck once on bottom inside and below rim exterior to left of handle "W•P" in raised serif letters over a fleur-de-lis in a heart surround. Tiny centerpoint on bottom inside.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Pollard (1690-1740); born and worked in Boston, MA, until moving to Charleston, SC, sometime before 1738.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Duncan McKim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.382526
label: catalog number
content: 382526
label: accession number
content: 161740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.335 cm