Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1700
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, vertical rim, and bottom with flattened boss; cast handle is pierced in a geometric pattern with eight voids and engraved on back "•A•G" in shaded serif letters facing out next to two oval impressions. Struck once on rim exterior to left of handle "(annulet?) / DI / •" in raised serif letters in a circle. Centerpoint on bottom inside and underside.
label: Description
content: Maker is David Jesse (circa 1669-1705/6); believed to have trained in London and emigrated to Boston in 1697 or 1698.
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: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383534
label: catalog number
content: 383534
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
label: Object Type
content: Candleholders
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 18.7325 cm x 13.6525 cm