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Posset-pot
Posset-pot, pale buff coloured earthenware, standing on a straight-sided foot-rim, bulbous body, cylindrical neck, the sides ornamented with pushed out bosses in vertical rows, twin loop handles to either side of the body moulded in the form of scrolling spirals, to the front of the body a narrow curving spout lying against against the sides of the body rises up from the lower body to the neck; covered all over, apart from the base, with a slightly pink-tinged white tin-glaze, the glaze worn off in places around the lip-rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34780
Creation/Production
Unknown
Acquisition
Purchase, 1902
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.6
diam
(cm): 16.5
Width
(cm): 22.3
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 6
Width
(in): 8
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Tin-glazed
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Tin-glazed earthenware
Location
On Display
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