拍品信息
拍品名称
An English delftware porringer, dated 1731
起拍价
GBP 600
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Probably Bristol, the circular bowl with a pierced shell-form handle, painted in blue with formal borders, the interior inscribed and dated with the initials 'I R 1731', the rim and handle sponged in blue, 19cm long including the handle
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 91
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.399, fig.c
This form is variously referred to as a porringer or bleeding bowl. Contemporary metal examples in pewter or silver also have a single pierced handle. The pierced hole in the present example would not do much to aid the person holding it, whether it was to catch blood they were letting or when feeding an invalid so perhaps the hole was simply intended to aid storage, where it could be suspended on a hook.
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 91
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.399, fig.c
This form is variously referred to as a porringer or bleeding bowl. Contemporary metal examples in pewter or silver also have a single pierced handle. The pierced hole in the present example would not do much to aid the person holding it, whether it was to catch blood they were letting or when feeding an invalid so perhaps the hole was simply intended to aid storage, where it could be suspended on a hook.
