SKINNER MUSEUM: Closed
GiveMiniature porringer
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Photo Credit:
Petegorsky/Gipe
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Photo Credit:
Petegorsky/Gipe
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Photo Credit:
Petegorsky/Gipe
Not On View
Bird, Joseph
British; English (active before 1685; died 1735)
Place made:
Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England; London
Miniature porringer, ca. 1700; inscription 1715
Silver; molded, stamped, and engraved
Overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 13/16 in; 2.9 cm x 7 cm x 4.6 cm
Bequest of Josephine Purtscher Fellows (Class of 1924)
MH 1986.33.97
This miniature vessel may have been a child’s toy or a novelty for adults and is engraved on the base “Margett Simpson 1715.”
