Pot, Chamber
- Object Name:
- Pot, Chamber
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.02.08
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Date:
- 1780-1820
- Description:
- Chamber Pot, probably a child's. Spun pewter. Bulbous bowl with slightly constricted neck and a rounded wide rim; also has a foot ring and an attached handle. Concentric rings from turning process visible at base. Seam line present at widest part of the bulbous body. Handle, which was cast and applied, is S-shaped with an approximate D-shaped cross-section, and has a ridged thumb rest. Ball-shaped projection at bottom end of handle. Upper edge of handle adhered to rim. Seam line present on inner surface of handle. Hammer marks visible at base ring.
- Material:
- Metal
Pewter - Dimensions:
- H-5.25 W-10.375 Dia-8.125 inches
- Provenance:
- One of the items from the Prentis Collection -- given by Katherine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katherine's husband, David Edward Murphy -- which 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 St.), 1957-1983. A 1965 note from Katherine Prentis Murphy states, "next year 1966 I will give you the pewter collection;" perhaps this piece was part of that later addition, as it does not appear on the earlier inventories of the Prentis bedroom (1957.065.02).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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