Porringer
date: label: date made
content: late 18th or early 19th century
label: date made
content: 1770 - 1780
notes: label: Description
content: Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast crown handle with triangular bracket is pierced with 11 voids and struck on top with the incuse serif letters "LB" at center of a circular shield on indistinct support flanked by bossed foliate volutes below a five-pearl (ducal) coronet with textured ground. "Mason" and "10" scratched on underside of boss. No touchmarks. Diamond or lozenge linen mark with sink hole from tinker's dam used to burn handle on to bowl. Turning marks across entire bottom underside.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388320
label: catalog number
content: 388320
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 20.0025 cm x 13.6525 cm