Porringer

This double handled porringer was made by Val-Kill Industries. Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman and Caroline O'Day created Val-Kill Industries in 1926. Located on the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, Val-Kill Industries was a direct response to changing demographics in the local community. At Val-Kill, skilled artisans produced high quality replicas and adaptations of early American furniture in response to the immensely popular Colonial Revival style.

In 1934, the business expanded to include the Val-Kill Forge, and a few years later Val-Kill looms. The forge produced a wide range of common pewter pieces based on both colonial and contemporary forms such as this porringer.