This is a vintage Genuine Pewter porringer bowl stamped on the back
"Colonial (CCC in a diamond shape) Pewter". CCC WAS THE MARK
OF THE COLONIAL CASTING CO. FROM THE 1920s AND 1930s.
This has a few scratches and dings but overall in great shape. Very nice weight to it.
Measures 5" wide and 9" long with handles.
A porringer is a small, usually pewter, dish from which Europeans and
colonial Americans ate their gruel or porridge, or other soft foods.
Porringers were usually cylindrical, between 4 inches to 6 inches in diameter,
and 1 1/2 to 3 inches deep; they had a flat, sometimes ornately decorated
handle, or sometimes two handles at opposite sides, on which the owner's
initials were sometimes engraved and occasionally came with a lid. All
authentic porringers today are considered to be rare – especially those
made in America prior to the American Revolution because, when there
became a shortage of lead for making bullets, the Americans and the
British are said to have raided the nearby kitchens of all their pewterware,
which was thought to be soft enough to use for their purposes.