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Culture:American
Title:cup or porringer
Date Made:1800-1830
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed earthenware (redware); manganese decoration
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts
Measurements:Overall: 2 in x 5 in x 4 1/4 in; 5.1 cm x 12.7 cm x 10.8 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2013.7.27
Credit Line:William T. Brandon Memorial Collection of American Redware and Ceramics
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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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.

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