(1) One vessel, a stoneware porringer with twisted handles, painted cobalt blue, is a form uncommon for the time, and has not appeared at other American colonial sites.(2) Now a rare silver porringer - a small dish for soup or porridge - inscribed with the words u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The gift of Sir Thomas Herbertu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is coming up for sale at the London auction house on October 11.(3) Eddy slurped up what remained of his stew and sent his porringer down the table.(4) Once that was finished, I was to start putting the stew into the porringers and ring the meal bell.(5) Although porringers were often made of pewter, this specimen is a fragmentary shallow brass dish with a decorative handle that measured approximately 14 cm in diameter.
