Porringer
- Object Name:
- Porringer
- Object ID:
- 1929.011.02
- Creator:
- Lowell, Elijah O.
- Place of Origin:
- Orange, NH
- Date:
- circa 1869
- Description:
- Porringer - Redware, glazed. Greenish-brown glaze, incomplete at base and chipped at rim. Rounded body, narrow flaring lip, flat disc base. Loop handle from below lip to base. Incised banding beneath lip. Typed paper label on bottom; "Pottery [M]ade by E. O, Lowell in / [O]range [N.] H;., 186[2] [PRESEN]TED by / Mrs. W.H. Hadley ____ G. Lowell1929".
- Material:
- Ceramic
Redware - Dimensions:
- H-3.4 W-6.8 Dia-5.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Said to have been made in the Lowell pottery works in Orange, NH, by Elijah O. Lowell (1823-1873). Donors are Elijah Lowell's son Allen G.(1856-1929) of Concord, NH, who ran the business briefly after his father, and Elijah's grandson's wife, Hattie Lowell Hadley (1863-) of Hatfield, MA.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Hattie Lowell Hadley and Allen G. Lowell
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