Beaker
- Object Name:
- Beaker
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.01.20
- Date:
- circa 1800
- Description:
- Horn Beaker. Off-white with dark brown and black inclusions. Bottom insert is off-white with brown inclusions. Top edge is flat and slightly chamfered on inside and outside. Bottom is straight with flat foot. Bottom insert piece sits in a groove just above bottom edge. Body has shrunk a little on one side so there is a slight raised area on outside surface over edge of insert. Insert has two concentric turned circles. Very fine concentric tool marks on bottom surface of insert. Beaker has a slight curvature in it from top to bottom due to natural shape of horn section from which it was taken.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Horn - Dimensions:
- H-3 Dia-1.95 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Prentis Collection, exhibited in the "dining room" of the NHHS Prentis Rooms.
The Prentis Collection -- given by Katharine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katharine's husband, David Edward Murphy -- formed the contents of a suite of early New England "period rooms," meant to represent the home of a prosperous New England merchant c. 1730. The rooms were exhibited at the New Hampshire Historical Society (30 Park Street), 1957-1983. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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