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Culture:American
Title:taster porringer
Date Made:ca. 1800
Type:Food Service
Materials:base metal: pewter
Place Made:United States; New England; Connecticut?
Accession Number:  HD 2014.20.8.3
Credit Line:Gift of the Estate of Compton Allyn
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
2014-20-8-3t.jpg

Description:
Cast pewter taster porringer with attached cast handle, handle is foliate in shape with seven piercings, the cast handle is rough on the surface with a suggestion of a tree with limbs, there is a small linen mark on the inside of the bowl where the handle attaches to the bowl, there is a white paper label on the bottom of the bowl, which reads "97016"

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