Small-to-medium-sized pewter bowl; dark, gunmetal grey color; narrow, incised rim; thinly rendered with pitted exterior.
bowls (vessels)
hammering
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
Pewter
Hammered
BOWL
1. Typed paper label on the bottom underside: S:Ellis, London,/ 1721-1773./ Cottrell, p. 203 2. Impressed touch mark on bottom underside: [indistinct inpression -- believed to be ELLIS in a ribbon].
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Ellis, Samuel (Pewterer)
London, England
2 (H), 8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.590
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