Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1730-1766
name: label: maker
content: Clarke, Jonathan
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, angled rim, and boss bottom with flat gutter; cast handle is pierced in a keyhole pattern with 11 voids and engraved on front "G / I*M" in shaded serif letters facing out. Struck once on back of handle "J.Clarke" in raised script in a rounded rectangle. Tiny centerpoint on bottom inside and underside. No weight engraved.
label: Description
content: Maker is Jonathan Clarke (1706-1766); working in Newport, RI, 1734-1755, and Providence, RI, 1755-1766.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
setName: label: See more items in
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.383491
label: catalog number
content: 383491
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 19.3675 cm x 13.335 cm