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Posset-pot
Posset-pot, pale buff coloured earthenware, standing on a rounded foot-rim, bulbous lower body, flaring upper body, twin small plain loop handles to either side of the body, to the front of the body a narrow external spout curving up the sides of the body; the body covered with a white slip and then decorated with red slips and outlining trails of dark slip with white dots in the form of stylized rose and tulip-like flowers, the handles and spout decorated with dashes of dark slip, covered all over with a yellow glaze, the glaze chipped off around the lip-rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34784
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 17th century (late)
Acquisition
Purchase, 1903
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13
diam
(cm): 17.9
Width
(cm): 19.8
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 7
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
slip-decorated
decoration
Applied Art
slip-trailed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
slip
glaze
Location
Front Hall, South Balcony : Case A
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