Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1801 - 1856
notes: label: Description
content: Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast flower-type handle with tongued or linguiform bracket is pierced with 13 voids and struck once on top with partial circular eagle-with-anchor-in-shield touchmark of Samuel Hamlin, Jr. featuring "HAMLIN" in an arched banner above and "PROVIDEN[C]E" below. Linguiform linen mark. Faint, fine turning marks inside bottom; those on underside very crisp. Scratched "A. J. Congdon" in script on bowl below bracket and on underside in gutter.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.0016
label: catalog number
content: 61.0016
label: accession number
content: 229736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 20.0025 cm x 13.335 cm