porringer

Porringer with two handles. Decorated in reddish brown, blue and green on a cream ground. At the centre a motif of four dots. The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines between which are alternating sections of loops and cross-hatching all the way round, chiefly in brown. Between the border and the centre are designs of triangles narrowing towards the centre formed of parallel lines, foliate shapes or chevrons symmetrically arranged, mostly in four brown segments with two green and two blue smaller elements.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1957.128
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 262 mm x 240 mm x 65 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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