Isaac Jackson
Porringer

MakerAmerican, 1734–1807, active Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1762–1807
MakerAmerican, d. 1785, active Chester County, Pennsylvania, c. 1780–1785
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Porringer
Datec. 1770–1807
Made inPennsylvania, United States
MediumPewter
Dimensions2 1/8 × 7 × 5 5/16 in. (5.4 × 17.8 × 13.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.53.1.1
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Kilroy Center
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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

The tab-handle porringer is associated with five shops: those of Isaac Jackson, Robert Porter, Elisha Kirk, Samuel Pennock, and Pennock’s son Simon, all situated in southeastern Pennsylvania. Jackson and Porter were probably the first to produce these distinctive vessels. In many respects they typify the rural pewterer, in that pewter often represented a sideline to augment their principal livelihood—Jackson’s as a clockmaker and Porter’s as a carpenter.

Technical notes: See B.53.1.5.

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.


ProvenanceT. Van C. Phillips, West Chester, Pennsylvania; [Charlotte and Edgar Sittig, Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania]; [John S. Walton, New York], purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1953; given to MFAH, by 1966.
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