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Unidentified

Posset Pot

1766

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Unidentified

Posset Pot

1766

Physical Qualities Salt-glazed brown stoneware; replaced spout, 10 x 12 x 11 1/2 in.; 9 3/4 in. diam.
Credit Line Gift of the Wunsch Americana Foundation, Inc., New York
Object Number 1995.231
Of thistle-shape with strap handles applied at right-angles to the curved spout. Incised decoration of bird and flowers highlighted with an iron slip.
with Jonathan Horne, 66 b&c Kensington Church Street, London, 1985.
Jonathan Horne, 'A Catalogue of English Brown Stoneware from the 17th and 18th Centuries,' London, 1985, fig. 94.

Inscribed: At base: R, inscribed in clay, 'Susana 1767/fecit...'

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