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Porringer and cover
Porringer, pale cream-coloured earthenware with a soft greenish-yellow tinge to the glaze, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides, to either side of the body twin horizontal loop handles with impressed flower heads at the terminals, round domed cover with to the top a loop handle with impressed flower heads at the terminals, engine-turned banding around the exterior lip-rim of the porringer and the rim of the cover; the exterior body of the porringer and the top of the cover marbled under the glaze with shades of brown and yellow, the banded borders overpainted with a wash of green enamel, the handles touched with washes of green enamel. The body of the porringer broken and repaired.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35818
Acquisition
Exchange, 15/3/1916
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.3
diam
(cm): 13.3
Width
(cm): 15.2
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 5
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
under-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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