Porringer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1735
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl-shaped porringer with bulging sides, slightly angled rim, and boss bottom with angled gutter; cast handle is pierced in a scroll pattern with 8 voids and engraved on front "C / I*K" in shaded serif letters facing in. Struck once on bottom inside "W:Co[wel]l" in raised script in a conforming surround and on back of handle "W•C" in raised script in a serrated square. Tiny centerpoint on bottom underside. No weight engraved.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Cowell, Jr. (1712-1761) of Boston, MA.
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.383500
label: catalog number
content: 383500
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 7 5/8 in x 5 in; 4.7625 cm x 19.3675 cm x 12.7 cm