Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1810 - ca 1840
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 once on top with "TD&SB" touchmark for Thomas Danforth Boardman and Sherman Boardman across a keyhole-shape shield below a five-pearl (ducal) coronet with matte ground. Diamond or lozenge linen mark with sink hole from tinker's dam used to burn handle on to bowl. Fine turning marks around upper half of bowl exterior; wide turning marks on underside of boss.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
label: place used
content: United States: New England
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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.388321
label: catalog number
content: 388321
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: porringer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 in; 4.7625 cm x 18.7325 cm x 12.7 cm