Object Details
- Description
- Basin porringer-type bowl with molded rim, slightly rounded and tapered sides, and flat bottom incised near perimeter; interior marked at seven graduated intervals, each line stamped incuse with an even number from "2" to "16". Cast Old English-type handle is pierced with 8 voids and struck once on top with tombstone-shape, crowned book- or Bible-between-pillars touchmark of John Foster.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- after 1740
- ca 1750
- ID Number
- DL.388318
- catalog number
- 388318
- accession number
- 182022
- Object Name
- bowl, bleeding
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 7 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 19.685 cm x 13.335 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Associated Place
- United States: New England
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1453570
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-f6c8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
