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Toy Porringer

Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8539

Description

Handled cup or porringer with rounded sides and outflared lip. Strap-like handle; on small foot. Covered with orange/brick-red glaze and dark brown splotching in ring around body, on rim and handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

miniatures (toys)
porringers (dishes)
toys (recreational artifacts)
glazing (coating)
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
childhood
toys (recreational artifacts)
Redware
Childhood
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Porringer

Inscription

Fabric label (NFL) on bottom underside: CONN.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 3/4 x 3 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.754

Places

New England (United States) [general region]
Probably Connecticut (United States)
Probably Connecticut (United States)
Probably

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