Description:
Porringers are much like large cups, often with flared rims. They were often filled with porridge, soup, or stew. Thrown, circular redware cup or porringer, with flaring rim, bulbous belly, and tapering foot rim, applied strap handle is decorated with a single rib, the body of the cup has a pair of incised lines running around the belly of the cup and a single incised line at the rim, the body is well thrown and thin walled, the whole is covered in a light brown glaze with some dark green areas, on the bottom of the cup is the red painted number "129", this object was originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Condition: good condition with three chips out of the rim. Origin: Massachusetts, c. 1800-1830.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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