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Description: | Globular posset pot with straight flared neck, and flat foot, buff earthenware with a white tin-glaze, painted in-glaze in a bright polychrome palette, with Chinoiserie garden scene.
Two broad strap handles to sides, with heavy inward scrolls at upper terminal, small outward scrolls below, modelled open-mouthed serpents applied along the length of each handle. Tall spout emerging from below belly of pot, terminating just below neck rim. White tin-glaze containing small specks of blue, painted in-glaze with three Chinoiserie garden scenes in vivid blue, green, yellow and red. Side opposite spout painted with two figures seated in a garden, right hand figure looking over his shoulder and pointing off to the right, left hand figure examining an unidentified object (fan?) in her hands. Low rocks and sprouting plants surround them, isolated hills in background. Smaller scenes to sides of spout: to left a woman sits before a low table holding an object (fan?) in her hands, lantern on the ground behind her; to right a man sits on a low bench before a table of flowers, vase of flowers behind him, looking back over his shoulder and pointing to the right. Three plain bands round neck rim, bleeding into white tin-glaze, spout and handles embellished with dark blue dashes, handle serpents painted a mottled blue/green.
Technique: thrown
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: painted in glaze
Material: modelled
Material: tin-glazed
posset pot made in Bristol, Avon, England, Britain, Europe, 1710 (circa), (1995.153). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.9951 | Go to resource |
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