Porringer
Samuel Vernon
1700–1730 · Silver · The American Wing
The shallow bowls with handles known as porringers were used for drinking liquids or dipped into stews, soups, porridges, and other staples of the colonial diet.
- Artist
- Samuel Vernon
- Date
- 1700–1730
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1913
