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Description: | A Post-Medieval (c.1500-1700) lead alloy (pewter) probable toy frying pan or tableware, now in two parts. It measures 102.47mm in length, 39.73mm in max.width, 12.05mm in depth and weighs 13.05g. It is broken across the long handle.The bowl measures 39.73mm in diameter and is 12.05mm in depth. On the underside is a concentric ring 19.67mm in diameter which acts as a foot. The foot ring sits on a flattish base with curved sides and an overhanging rim above. This is decorated to the top with a twisted rope motif. The bowl is between 0.5 and 1mm thick. It is decorated on the inside surface with three rings of punched ring-and-dot, around a central hole 2.64mm in diameter, probably also a ring-and-dot that has worn through (several others have and have caused damage and collapse to the wall of the bowl in places). To one edge of the inside of the bowl, just below the rim, is an apparently separate decorative appliqué holding in place the handle, with an additional and much larger appliqué to the reverse. The decoration appears to be linear but it is very worn and hard to make out. The handle (8.54x1.02mm cross-section) is openwork and cast as one (and now broken - recent break), with two long strips set either side of a central gap and joined only by two pellets (as seen on the reverse, with a central rib on the underside of each strip, one of which branches in a Y shape as it extends into the terminal). One strip is decorated with three raised longitudinal ribs, the other similarly but with the outside most rib as a line of tiny pellets. The terminal (14.35x0.92mm) is in the form of a stylised lis with moulded decoration to the uppermost side only, in the form of a wide central frond and two smaller leaves. At the join is an apparently separate binding strip with raised cross-hatching (only really visible to the reverse) and a ring a domed pellet to the front.The join of handle to bowl on the outside of the bowl takes the form of a pentagonal shape with point close to the foot ring, decorated with a raised ring and domed pellet above either slanting edge and two inverted V-shapes of tiny pellets. Above is a transverse rib and the area between rib and inverted V-shapes creates three triangular areas, two of which are filled with tiny pellets (the third is more obscured). Above the rib is a line of tiny pellets and above this three ring and domed pellets, arranged horizontally. There is another thicker transverse rib above, apparently decorated, in line with the rim of the bowl.Although there is no exact comparison for this object either on the PAS database or in Egan & Forsyth's Toys, Trifles & Trinkets, 2005, there is also nothing to suggest this is a spoon, and its similarities lie much more with the toy frying pan, porringer or tableware (given the foot ring). Indeed, the shape and twisted rope design are rather similar to the full-size example of a porringer illustrated on p.301 (fig.63), with the long characteristic handle of a frying pan (so it could be held safely over an open fire).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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