Description:
Porringers are much like large cups, often with flared rims. They were often filled with porridge, soup, or stew. Thrown, shallow, circular redware cup or porringer, cup has outturned flaring rim; bulbous belly, tapering to a small circular foot ring, there is a single, strap handle attached and it is decorated with a single center rib; the pot is covered with splashes of manganese brown decoration on an orange ground, glaze has pooled in the base of the cup, on the underside of the base of the pot is a painted red number "53?", Presumed to be part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Condition: minute chips to the rim, overall good condition, Origin: Massachusetts, c. 1800-1830.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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