The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879-, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster, 1885- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 190
, a porringer(Key V, 12) has been placed as the first in a line of SILVER; DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL 137 chronologically arranged representative sugar bowls ofearly American make and use. The handles were of flat open-work in geometricalor tracery designs (Fig. 2, A) or else of the later key-hole… … Fig. 2. A, Poiringer, top view, by Richard Humphreys, Philadelphia, c. 1775; B, side view of same. C. Hartman Kuhn Collection. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. the top. Both of these contour types are well shown inone of the accompanying plates. Plates and platters, while usually…
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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