Bleeding Bowl
date: label: date made
content: after 1740
label: date made
content: ca 1750
notes: label: Description
content: Basin porringer-type bowl with molded rim, slightly rounded and tapered sides, and flat bottom incised near perimeter; interior marked at seven graduated intervals, each line stamped incuse with an even number from "2" to "16". Cast Old English-type handle is pierced with 8 voids and struck once on top with tombstone-shape, crowned book- or Bible-between-pillars touchmark of John Foster.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New England
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388318
label: catalog number
content: 388318
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, bleeding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 19.685 cm x 13.335 cm