Posset cup
Slipware posset cup, slightly flaring body of thrown red earthenware with two handles, coated with white slip sliced through with a geometric ‘diced’ pattern above and below a central band of foliate patterns made by slicing through the glaze, and two rectangular cartouches with the date '1761'and another with the letters 'BK'
History note: Provenance unknown prior to mid-twentieth century. Previously with Jonathan Horne Antiques Ltd and part of the Longridge collection (no. 576) though apparently not amongst the pieces sold at Christie's but instead sold privately. At some point purchased by Michael and Elizabeth Fuller of Upper Slaughter. Sold their sale (day 2) at Woolley & Wallis (10 November 2021, lot 490), where it was purchased by the vendor, E. & H. Manners.
Purchased with Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum Acquisition Fund
Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 31.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2022-04-29) by E. & H. Manners
Production date: circa AD 1761
This posset cup is an exceptionally fine example of later English slipware. It belongs to a small group of related wares that bear dates between 1755 and 1766 (in the Burnap and Weldon collections and that at Colonial Williamsburg).
Accession number: C.2-2022
Primary reference Number: 311378
Object entry form: 1560
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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