We went, and they sat for a while drinking porringers of water.
They came over to the table and they gave my foster-sisters and myself three porringers of goat's milk.
She'd sent up the porringers and set out glasses of milk and made cookies in heart shapes with her mouth tight shut for all that time, and we never knowing if she sensed it rightly or not.
Caudle cups were in use in the sixteenth century, and throughout the century that followed they were used along with porringers, which differed from them only in that the mouths of the porringers were wider and the sides straight.
Many of the porringers which followed the earlier type were octagonal, and in some instances twelve-sided.
In the reign of William and Mary the rage for Chinese figures and ornaments caused English silversmiths to decorate porringers with similar designs.
When not in use porringers were hung by their pierced handles on hooks on the edge of the dresser-shelf, and, being usually of polished pewter or silver, indeed made a glittering show.
Silver porringers were made by all the silversmiths.
Little earthen porringers of red pottery and tortoise-shell ware are also found, but are not plentiful.
In 1673 John Oxenbridge left three silver porringers and his wife one silver pottinger; but pewter was the favorite metal.
I have also been told that these little porringers were not posnets, but simply the samples of work made by apprentices in the pewterer's trade to show their skill and proficiency.
I do not find porringers ever advertised under that name in New England papers, though many were made as late as this century by New Haven, Providence, and Boston pewterers.
A universal table furnishing was-- "The porringers that in a row Hung high and made a glittering show.
So I seated myself at the table and examining it, found the following verses engraved upon it: Weep for the cranes that erst within the porringers did lie And for the stews and partridges evanished heave a sigh!
The small porringers are sometimes called posnets, which is an old-time word that may originally have referred to a posset-cup.
I have often seen the item wine-taster in colonial inventories and wills, but never bleeding-basin; while porringers were almost universal on such lists.
These porringers were in many sizes, from tiny little ones two inches in diameter to those eight or nine inches across.
The poet Swift says:-- "The porringersthat in a row Hung high and made a glittering show.
Porringers of pewter, and occasionally of silver, were much used at the table, chiefly for children to eat from.
It should be stated that the word porringer, as used by English collectors, usually refers to a deep cup with a cover and two handles, while what we call porringers are known to these collectors as bleeding-basins or tasters.
Numerous 18th-century sites from Philadelphia to Williamsburg have yielded a series of bowls and porringers characterized by interior linings of slip that is streaked and mottled with manganese.
Of this tree are made the substantial doors, the basins and the porringers of Harar.
It was useless for them to forbid me over there; I used, in secret, to make little pots and porringers of the clay Iwaneck would bring me, and I know still how to glaze dishes and other things.
Then he began to break up his pitchers and porringers and his working implements, and threw them out of the door.
Then I took pen and ink and wrote the following verses: Weep for the cranes that erst within the porringers did lie, And for the stews and partridges evanished heave a sigh!
As in the dish it lay, With pot-herbs, soaked in vinegar, in porringers hard by!
All trotting down withporringers and tommycans to be filled.
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