Samuel Pennock
Porringer

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Porringer
Datec. 1775–1825
Possible placePennsylvania, United States
Possible placeDrumore Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Possible placeEast Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumPewter
Dimensions2 1/8 × 5 1/4 × 7 1/16 in. (5.4 × 13.3 × 17.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.53.1.3
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Folk Art Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Samuel Pennock and his son Simon were the last pewterers to produce the tab handle porringer. At least three different contours, each with slight variations, are attributed to the Pennocks.

Related examples: Pennock porringers, as well as the molds for casting them, are published in Montgomery 1978, pp. 155–56; Krile 1989, pp. 23, 26–27, nos. 60, 61, 75–77.

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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