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.