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Description: | Large bell-shaped posset pot, curving inward to flared foot, with visible throwing rings and two ribbed loop handles with prominent thumb-pinched lower terminals (both restorations). Deep red earthenware body, coated on exterior with a fine layer of white slip, incised to give overall regular chequer pattern, interrupted around middle by continuous border of eight rectangular panels. Each panel filled with simple leafy sprig motif, except for two in the centre of each side, inscribed '1760' on one side, 'W M H' on the other, letters and numbers outlined in small dots. Interior, foot and handles left red, the glaze giving a dark red brown colour.
Technique: thrown
Technique: slip-coated
Technique: incising
Technique: sgraffito
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
pot & posset pot made in Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, 1760, (1923.185). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2407 | Go to resource |
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