Image PorringerConey BMA.jpg thumb A silver porringer created by John Coney silversmith John Coney , c. 1710, Birmingham Museum of Art A porringer is a small dish from which European ethnic groups European s and Thirteen Colonies colonial Americans ate their gruel or porridge , or other soft foods. ref name Gottesman cite news author Rita Susswein Gottesman url http www.collectorsweekly.com articles evolution of new york silver porringer handles title Flashback Evolution of New York Silver Porringer Handles work Collectors Weekly Collectorsweekly.com date April 3, 2009 accessdate May 1, 2011 ref Porringers were shallow bowls, between 4 to 6 in diameter, and 1 to 3 deep the form originates in the medieval period in Europe and they were made in wood, ceramic, pewter and silver . They had flat, horizontal handles. Colonial porringers tended to have one handle whereas European ones tend to have two handles on opposite sides, ref name Gottesman on which the owner s initials were sometimes engraved, and they occasionally came with a lid. Citation needed reason I ve never seen a European porringer with lid is this a colonial thing? date January 2011 Porringers resembled the smaller quaich , a Scottish drinking vessel. One can discern authentic pewter porringers in much the same way that silver can be authenticated from the touch marks that were stamped either into the bowl of the porringer or on its base. Wooden porringers are occasionally found from excavations e.g. 16th C example from Southwark and 11th C from Winchester. ref cite book author Robin Wood title The Wooden Bowl publisher ..., for the term porringer is a double saucepan similar to a bain marie used for cooking porridge. The porridge ... reflist External links http www.brooklynmuseum.org opencollection objects 908 One handled Porringer picture from the Brooklyn Museum http www.learnnc.org lp multimedia 6818 Two handled Porringer picture from Learn NC http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 470768 porringer Definition of porringer from ... more details
Thomas Pengelly fl. c.1650 &ndash 6 January 1696 was a wealthy United Kingdom British merchant of the 17th century who traded with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Atlantic Seaboard . He owned property in the East End of London East End of London, as well as in Finchley and in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire . ref name ODNB David Lemmings, Pengelly, Sir Thomas 1675 1730 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 21837, accessed 6 Dec 2010 ref Pengelly married Rachel, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Baines, a Roundhead Parliamentary Officer during the English Civil War Civil War . Their son was to become the judge and Member of Parliament for Cockermouth Thomas Pengelly judge Sir Thomas Pengelly he was born in the family s property at Moorfields in 1675. By 1683 the family s home in Finchley had provided Lodger lodgings for the former The Protectorate Protector Richard Cromwell after the Restoration England Restoration of the Monarchy . On the death of Thomas Pengelly in 1696 Cromwell continued to lodge with Mrs Pengelly, moving with her to her property in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire in 1700 ref Peter Gaunt, Cromwell, Richard 1626 1712 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online edn, May 2008 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 6768, accessed 6 Dec 2010 ref , and remaining there until his own death in 1712. This arrangement created a rumour that the younger Thomas Pengelly was Richard Cromwell s illegitimate son. ref name ODNB References reflist External links http collections.vam.ac.uk item O103722 two handled cup pengelly porringer ?print 1 The Pengelly Porringer in The Victoria and Albert Museum Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pengelly, Thomas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1696 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pengelly, Thomas Category English merchants Category 17th century Eng ... more details
for the computer program GrabIt Image grabit.jpg thumb right An original grabit. Image grabit tab.jpg thumb right A closeup of the underside of an original grabit tab, showing its uses and place of origin. Grabit s are microwave safe cookware easily identifiable by their tab handle. They were introduced by Corning Glass in the early 1970s, and are now sold in a slightly different form by World Kitchen. Grabits are notable in that they were some of the first cookware specifically designed for microwave use their design was recognized by the Smithsonian s Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum . http www.nationaldesignawards.org 2009 honoree smart design Grabits strongly resemble porringer s. They can be covered with a plastic lid, P 150 C, or a Pyrex clear glass lid, P 240 C. History Grabits were originally produced and sold by Corning Incorporated Corning Glassworks , and made from Corning s unique pyroceram material. When the Corning Visions line was introduced, Grabits made from Pyrex Visions glass were added to the product line. After World Kitchen bought Corning Glass in the early 1990s, Grabits began to be made of ceramic, and production was moved from the US to China. http www.corningware.com index.asp?pageId 99 Category Cookware and bakeware ... more details
visited Brinkley in order to attempt to sell a valuable silver porringer to List of Jeeves characters ... to convince Runkle to give Tuppy his due, has purloined the silver porringer he wished to sell to Tom. Bertie tries to set this aright by returning the porringer, but is caught, and has to secrete the object in his bureau drawer. While he muses on the four problems returning the porringer freeing ... s employ discovers the purloined porringer in Bertie s drawer, and Runkle accuses Bertie of the crime ... more details
ref improve date October 2011 Hildebrand Tuppy Glossop is a fictional character appearing in some of P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves books. He is a member of the Drones Club and a good friend of Bertie Wooster . In Right Ho, Jeeves , we learn that Tuppy is of Scottish origin. Relationships Tuppy is engaged to Bertie s favourite cousin, Angela Travers . Jeeves has ruined Tuppy s relationships with the opera singer Cora Bellinger and the dog lover Miss Dalgleish in order to keep Tuppy with Angela, usually upon the request of Angela s mother Bertie s Aunt Dahlia Travers Dahlia . In Right Ho, Jeeves , Angela breaks the engagement because Tuppy disparages a shark that had attacked her while she was waterskiing aquaplaning in Cannes . Bertie makes an attempt to restore the status quo with disastrous results, causing Jeeves to step in and restore their engagement with his normal brilliance. Tuppy s uncle is Bertie s nemesis and later good friend Sir Roderick Glossop and his cousin is Bertie s ex fianc e Honoria Glossop . In the book Much Obliged, Jeeves , Angela and Tuppy haven t married after being two years engaged due to a lack of funds on Tuppy s part. Angela s mother Dahlia takes it upon herself to do something about Tuppy s financial woes. She decides that L.P Runkle of Runkle Enterprises owes Tuppy money for Tuppy s late father s invention, a hangover remedy which allowed Runkle to rake in millions, while Tuppy s father did not make any profit on the invention. She subsequently attempts to extort the money from Runkle by pinching his porringer , although that had proved to be a bust. With Jeeves s brilliance and the Junior Ganymede Club book she manages to make Runkle cough up the money. Bertie reminisces quite frequently about a practical joke Tuppy played on him where one evening at the Drones Club, Tuppy dared Bertie to swing across the club swimming pool by means of the exercise rings. Bertie made quick work of the challenge only to discover that Tuppy had looped the las ... more details
John Coney 5 January 1655 20 August 1722 was an early American silversmith and goldsmith from Boston , Massachusetts. He specialised in engraving. From the 1690s on, Coney was considered the most important Bostonian silversmith of his day. ref cite book last Rosenberg first Chaim M. title Goods for sale products and advertising in the Massachusetts industrial age year 2007 publisher Univ of Massachusetts Press isbn 9781558495807 pages 242 url http books.google.com books?id IZva1zXenNYC&pg PA80&dq 22John Coney 22&hl en&ei GYxnTc 3AtHtOa2DiZcL&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5&ved 0CD0Q6AEwBDgo v onepage&q 22Coney 22&f false ref In 1702, he engraved the paper money for Massachusetts. ref name Martello Coney also designed a version of the seal of Harvard College . ref name BMA cite book last Birmingham Museum of Art title Birmingham Museum of Art guide to the collection year 2010 publisher Birmingham Museum of Art location Birmingham, Ala isbn 9781904832775 pages 106 ref John Coney was the apprentice of and later brother in law to Jeremiah Dummer silversmith Jeremiah Dummer , the first American born silversmith. He married Mary Atwater, sister of Dummer s wife, in 1694. They were widower and widow, Coney was married twice before. He had twelve children in total, but only five daughters survived beyond infancy. ref name Forbes cite book last Forbes first Esther title Paul Revere and the World He Lived in year 1942 publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt isbn 9780618001941 pages 536 url http books.google.com books?id r6sNI9dUfYC&pg PA7&dq 22John Coney 22&hl en&ei CYxnTdORNImbOtjw2J0L&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CCwQ6AEwADge v onepage&q 22Coney 22&f false ref Image PorringerConey BMA.jpg thumb A silver porringer created by John Coney, c. 1710, Birmingham Museum of Art His last apprentice, from 1716 until the time of Coney s death, was Apollos Rivoire , father of Paul Revere , and his indirect influence on Revere was considerable. ref name Martello cite bo ... more details
File Kremlin Armoury 1.JPG thumb right upright Silver goblet presented the Tsar of Russia by John III Sobieski King of Poland , 17th century, over 1m height. A silversmith is a Master craftsman craftsperson who makes objects from silver or gold . The terms silversmith and goldsmith are not synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guild s are or were largely the same but the end product varies greatly as does the scale of objects created. Silversmithing is the art of turning silver and gold sheetmetal into hollowware dish es, bowl vessel bowls , porringer s, drinkware cup s, vase s, ewer s, urn s, etc. , flatware silverware , and other articles of silver household Household silver . History In Ethiopia the trade of silversmith was practised by the so called Jews of Ethiopia, otherwise known as the Falasha. The activity was considered to be inferior to others, as reliant on manual skills. ref name Unesco cite book url http books.google.co.uk books?id ixCyd2lByggC&pg PA516&dq History of Gold in Ethiopia&hl en&sa X&ei cKqET j1NKqu0QXm0cHfBw&ved 0CH0Q6AEwCQ v onepage&q History 20of 20Gold 20in 20Ethiopia&f false author E.J.Van Donzel Organization United Nations Educational, Scie, Unesco title History of humanity year publisher UNESCO, 2000 retrieved 2012 04 10 ref In the ancient Near East the value of silver to gold being less, allowed a silversmith to produce objects and store these as stock. Ogden states that according to an edict written by Diocletian, a silversmith was able to charge, 75, 150 or 300 denarii for material produce per Roman pound . At that time guilds of silversmith s formed to look out for the welfare of their number. ref name Ogden cite book url http books.google.co.uk books?id oCBt7B7nt5QC&pg PA58&dq Egyptian Silversmithing&hl en&sa X&ei hq6ET n8GejQ0QWDp5TZBw&ved 0CFkQ6AEwBTgK v onepage&q Egyptian 20Silversmithing&f false author Jack Ogden title Ancient Jewellery year publisher University of California Press, 7 Jul 1992 retrieved 2012 04 1 ... more details
for the Olympic athlete Alice Arden athlete Alice Arden 1516 1551 was the daughter of John Brigantine and Alice Squire, who conspired to have her husband, Thomas Arden of Faversham , murdered so she could carry on with a long term affair with a tailor, Richard Moseby. The murder took place on 14 February 1551. She was tried, convicted, and burnt at the stake for her part in the murder. Conspirators The murder was described by Raphael Holinshed and later had entries in both The Newgate Calendar and the Chambers Book of Days . Alice Brigantine married Thomas Arden on an unknown date. They made their home at Faversham Abbey , which had been dissolved in 1536. They had at least one daughter, Margaret, who was born in 1538. According to these accounts, Alice was young, tall, and well favoured of shape and countenance . She began an affair with a tailor, Richard Mosbye, and then she plotted to kill her husband. Thomas Arden was a private gentleman . His rival Mosbye or Mosbie was in the service of Edward North, 1st Baron North , before setting shop in London . ref name Chamber Chambers Book of Days Arden of Feversham ref ref name Newgate The Newgate Calendar Alice Arden of Feversham ref Mosbye frequented the house of the Ardens and the affair was carried rather openly. Thomas had to turn a blind eye, unwilling to sever relations with Alice s family. In time Alice came to loathe her husband and considered disposing of him. She made an early attempt on his life by poisoning him. She mixed milk and poison within a porringer , serving it to Thomas for breakfast. She had failed to account for the taste of the poison used. Thomas only took a spoonful or two before quitting his breakfast and complaining of its quality. ref name Newgate Alice had to find an accomplice for her further efforts. Holinshed simply mentions They employed as their confederates one John Green, a Faversham tailor George Bradshaw, a goldsmith of the same town and one Black Will, of Calyce Calais , a murder ... more details
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