Porringer
date: label: date made
content: 1801 - ca 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast flower-type handle with tongued or linguiform bracket is pierced with 13 voids and struck sideways once on top with partial circular touchmark of Samuel Hamlin Jr., containing a spreadwing eagle, head facing left, with anchor in shield against wing at right, "HA[MLI]N" and "PROV[IDENCE]" in raised serif letters in banners above and below. Small sink hole under rim from tinker's dam used to burn handle on to bowl. Very faint turning marks on underside of boss.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: place used
content: United States: New England
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
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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 Daughters of Mrs. Alice Pike Barney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.381989A
label: catalog number
content: 381989A
label: accession number
content: 162081
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