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Porringer
Edward Webb (American, born in England, 1666–1718)
1690–1700
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Credit Line
The Philip Leffingwell Spalding Collection—Given in his memory by Katharine Ames Spalding and Philip Spalding, Oakes Ames Spalding, and Hobart Ames Spalding
Accession Number42.259
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 28
DescriptionEverted rim, curved sides, slightly domed bottom. Geometric handle
Marks
EW in rectangle in bowl and indistinctly on back of handle
Inscriptionson handle engraved IB, in script on bottom: Johanna Buttler ye: 16th: 9mo: 1708
ProvenanceJohanna Butler, m. Joseph Woods in January, 1729. About 1928 bought by Mr and Mrs Philip Spalding in New Bedford; 1919, 1942, gift of Mrs. Spalding and children to MFA. (Accession date: April 9 and 16, 1942)