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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): 1817; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, posset pot, throwing, earthenware, thrown, with slip-trailed decoration under lead glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928 [GL.C.51-1928]
Description: Posset pot. Earthenware with slip-trailed decoration under lead glaze. Lower part of pot and base unglazed. Bulbous body with wide flaring mouth and four loop handles (one missing). Round the top the inscription: 'A Present for Thomas Bryan's Wife April 16th 1817'. Below, between the handles, a spray of flowers and rough interlaced or other designs. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | lead-glazed earthenware Unknown posset pot | Temporal: | name=early 19th Century; start=1817; end=1817 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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