Post-Medieval — Late 17th century
Porringer, miniature porringer
A small porringer with a narrow rim, straight-sided shallow bowl, flat base and two ears (one missing) of fleur-de-lis form. The surviving ear is marked with ownership initials ‘A’ and ‘B’. There is a touch underneath of a sun in splendour rising from clouds flanked by the initials ‘I’ and ‘C’ for John Colson, London, OP1057A (in OP as ‘Joseph’), LTP179, who opened his shop in 1670/71.
The device in Colson’s touch is a typical pewterers’ rebus with a pun on his name. The smiling sun is beginning to cloud over, thus ‘cool sun’ and Colson. Colson asked the Company’s Court on 12th October, 1699 ‘to have two dozen of Porrengers which the Master and Wardens last year seized at one Osborns a Brasier in Knaves Acre for being made of defective metal’ (Welch II, p.170).
- Category:
- Post-Medieval
- Object ID:
- 8136
- Object name:
- porringer, miniature porringer
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Colson, John
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- Production date:
- Late 17th century
- Material:
lead alloy, tin alloy, pewter
- Measurements/duration:
- WT 65.1 g, DM 80 mm, W 105 mm, H 28 mm (overall)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 40%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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