Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1772 - 1809
label: date made
content: ca 1774 - 1809
notes: label: Description
content: Small, bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast flower-type handle with tongued or linguiform bracket is pierced with 11 voids and struck once on top with partial circular lion touchmark of Gershom Jones, featuring a right-facing lion rampant between the raised serif letters "G I". No linen mark. Turning marks on underside of boss.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: place used
content: United States: Rhode Island
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.22
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.22
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 11.7475 cm x 8.255 cm