Porringer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

porringer
    n 1: a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child
         was eating pottage from a porringer"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Porringer \Por"rin*ger\, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F.
   potager a soup basin. See {Porridge}.]
   A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat
   or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth.
   [1913 Webster]