porringer

Porringer with two handles. Decorated in reddish brown, blue and green on a cream ground. At centre of hollow a motif formed of sets of short curved lines in brown green and blue radiating from the centre. Between this and the border are triangular shapes formed of brown lines directed towards the centre spaced at intervals round the porringer, resting on a curved shape infilled with brown lines. Between the triangles are chevrons of alternating blue and green.The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines between which are sets of lines in three colours parallel to the edge shortening towards the centre spaced at intervals all the way round.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1957.130
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 265 mm x 240 mm x 63 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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