porringer

Porringer with two handles, decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. At centre of hollow a motif formed of five sets of short brush strokes in brown with smaller lines in blue and green between. This motif surrounded by a six pointed star shape formed of two rows of dots, the inner row in green and blue, the outer in brown. The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines between which are short chevrons each in one of the three colours. Inside the border are inward-pointing triangles formed of lines directed towards the centre of the dish, in bron alternating with blue or green.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1957.124
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 257 mm x 234 mm x 68 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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