Description:
Porringers were a cross between a tea cup and a small bowl. They were used to consume soup, stews, and pottages. Thrown red earthenware bowl with small diameter base, flaring into a larger diameter mouth, rim of the porringer is slightly flattened, attached strap handle, decorated with vertical manganese splashes on the side of the body. Inscribed in pencil on the base, “Col./Harford [?]/1911” and in red paint, “1.” Formerly part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Condition: area of glaze loss on the side of the bowl Gates notecard for this object reads, "Porringer 5.5 in x 3 in deep/ Col. Hartford, Ct. Dec. 1911. Sam. Wenek. Red clay. brown glaze with brown/ splashes."

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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