Porringer
1800–1850
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 1 7/8 x 8 in. (4.8 x 20.3 cm); 7 oz. 2 dwt. (221.1 g) Body: Diam. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm) Lip: Diam. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Classification
Porringer
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933
Accession Number
33.120.348
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William Moulton, IV · 1772–1861
**William Moulton IV (1772–1861)** was an American silversmith working in Newburyport, Massachusetts, continuing a distinguished family tradition that stretched back generations. Born into the Moulton line of craftsmen, he established his own shop on Merrimack Street and produced silverware from roughly 1795 until the mid-nineteenth century. His output included both domestic and ecclesiastical pie...