Thomas Danforth Boardman
Porringer

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Porringer
Datec. 1810–1830
Made inHartford, Connecticut, United States
MediumPewter
Dimensions1 15/16 × 5 3/8 × 7 7/8 in. (4.9 × 13.7 × 20 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.58.99
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Flowered-handle porringers are most closely associated with Rhode Island pewterers, yet occasionally examples are found with the stamps of other New England makers, such as the Boardmans and Richard Lee. The pattern remained in favor through the first half of the nine teenth century.

Related examples: Hood 1965, p. 25, no. 96; Kernan, Ross, and Eilers 1969, pp. 26, 59, no. 66; Fairbanks 1974, p. 34, no. 123.

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.


Provenance[Carl and Celia Jacobs, Southwick, Massachusetts]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1958; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Mark struck once on the top of the handle.
On top of handle: mark of Thomas D. and Sherman Boardman, Hartford, 1810–1830 [Laughlin 1940, vol. I, pl. LVII, no. 428]

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