Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1775 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, bellied-bowl porringer with low-domed cover topped by three bud knops. Bowl has an angled rim, shallow bossed bottom and two, curved, open shell-and-scroll handles with T-shaped or linguiform brackets, while cover features gadrooned bands around edge and central boss; both pieces are engraved on theirs exteriors "•L•P•" in shaded serif letters. Small oval angel touchmark is struck three times side-by-side inside bottom. Turning marks and Linen marks at knops inside cover; additional turning marks on underside of belly and bottom on bowl.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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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: Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.311693
label: catalog number
content: 311693
label: accession number
content: 64443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 6 in x 4 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.795 cm