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Posset-pot

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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.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 34784

Creation/Production

Unknown

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

On Display

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Categories

Priddwaith | Earthenware Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art
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