Colander
- Object Name:
- Colander
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.04.201
- Place of Origin:
- England (probably)
- Date:
- 1800-1820
- Description:
- Kitchen Colander. Pewter. Pierced bowl with pendant handles and applied base. Piercings in a figure-eight pattern around sides of bowl with diamond-shaped piercings inside the figure-eights. Hexagon piercing pattern at bottom of bowl. Illegible maker's mark impressed at bottom; appears to be shield or animal inside of a circle, and perhaps the letter "X" and another letter outside the circle. Applied rounded lip. Pendant handles are shield-shaped, and appear to be cast. Handles are hinged to a lug that is adhered to bowl rim. Cross-hatch pattern on the lugs. Base ring is adhered to bowl and it has convex curve.
- Material:
- Metal
Pewter - Dimensions:
- H-5.5 W-12.75 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; this item was exhibited in the kitchen. 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 collection.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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