Isaac Jackson
Porringer

Public Domain

MakerAttributed to Isaac Jackson (American, 1734–1807, active Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1762–1807)American, 1734–1807, active Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1762–1807

Makeror Robert Porter (American, d. 1785, active Chester County, Pennsylvania, c. 1780–1785)American, 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

On view

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

METALWORK

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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