- Porringer
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The flowered-handle porringer is one of the most pleasing designs unique to eighteenth-century America. It is likely that this pattern originated with Samuel Hamlin since he made and retailed molds; furthermore, the greatest number of these known porringers carry the mark of Hamlin or, as in this instance, of his son.
Related examples: Hood 1965, p. 15, no. 21; Fairbanks 1974, p. 57, no. 221.
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.
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