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On Display: House - Belle Isle Stair Hall, Lower
Posset pot
1650-1660
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
London (Southwark); England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Museum Object Number
1959.1898
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1898
Object Name
Posset pot
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
London (Southwark); England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1650-1660
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Hand modeled
Dimensions (inches)
5.37 (H) x 10.25 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
13.65 (H) x 26.04 (W)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
• Cylindrical, bossed, white posset pot retaining lid: vol. 2, no. D273, London, probably Southwark, c. 1655Book: Rackham, Bernard. 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of pottery and porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2 vol.
• Cylindrical, bossed, white posset pot inscribed "KG/1651": pl. 85B, no. 1319