Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1760
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, vertical rim, and boss bottom with flat gutter; cast handle is pierced in a keyhole pattern with 13 voids and engraved on front "P / T*E" in shaded serif letters facing in. Struck once on back of handle "T. COVERLY" in raised serif letters in a rectangle. Centerpoint on bottom inside and underside. Old red-bordered paper museum label on bottom underside. No weight engraved.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Coverly (circa 1730-1800) of Newburyport, MA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
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.383499
label: catalog number
content: 383499
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.7625 cm x 20.955 cm x 13.97 cm