Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1817 - ca 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast flower-type handle with triple-scallop bracket is pierced with 13 voids and struck once on top with partial circular touchmark of William Calder, with "CALDER" arched above a spreadwing eagle, head facing left. Sink hole inside bowl from tinker's dam used to burned handle on to bowl. Fine 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: New England
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
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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: Gift of Daughters of Mrs. Alice Pike Barney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.381989B
label: catalog number
content: 381989B
label: accession number
content: 162081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 19.3675 cm x 13.335 cm