Samuel Minott
Porringer

MakerAmerican, 1732–1803
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Porringer
Datec. 1753–1803
Made inBoston, Massachusetts, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions2 × 5 3/8 × 8 1/16 in. (5.1 × 13.7 × 20.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.105
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Technical notes: See B.69.101.

Related examples:  Buhler 1965, pp. 95–96; Flynt and Fales 1968, p. 99, no. 76; and an unpublished example in the Rosenbach Foundation. Philadelphia. According to Kane 1998, p. 693, the Bayou Bend porringer was originally part of a larger set.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff.  American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceBy descent in the Jennings family, Boston; [Robert Ensko, New York, 1953]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1953; given to MFAH, 1969.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved on handle: A wyvern with an arrow in its mouth
Engraved on base: DI[I superscript]I
On top and back of handle: mark of Samuel Minott [Buhler and Hood 1970, vol. I, p. 328, nos. 229–33]

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