Porringer
Essex County silversmith Daniel Rogers produced a number of canns, a few creamers, and many spoons. Rogers’s specialty may have been gold beads, however, for surviving account books document his painstaking fabrication of these items for the regional silversmithing community. Among the purchasers were William Homes (1742 – 1825), Robert Evans (1768 – 1812), David Tyler (about 1760 – 1804), Isaac Townsend (1760 – 1812), Joseph Loring (1743 – 1815), Samuel Minott (1732 – 1803) of Boston, and Samuel Davis (1765 – 1839) of Plymouth.1 The Museum owns an engraved gold locket by Rogers, the only known marked example of his jewelry.
This keyhole-handled porringer is similar to another by Rogers in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Both share generously proportioned bowls and display an unusual lengthwise placement of the touchmark on top of the keyhole handle.
This text has been adapted from "Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000," edited by Jeannine Falino and Gerald W.R. Ward, published in 2008 by the MFA. Complete references can be found in that publication.