IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71864 accession number: C.1360 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a flaring neck, two handles which are convex on the outside and concave on the inside, and between them, a tubular sucking spout attached to the body and jutting forward at the top. The domed cover has a mushroom-shaped knob. The bulbous part of the body is decorated with sprays of flowers and foliage, with a horizontal row of adjacent diamond shapes separating them from the neck which is divided into panels with stylized plants with block-shaped leaves. The cover is decorated with sprays of flowers and foliage and has a borders of adjacent diamond shapes around the knob and the outer edge. Inside the cover and body is the inscription. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Hakoumoff, Golden Court, George Street, Richmond, Surrey; he sold it to Mr A.G. Parry of South Kensington, for £7.10s. but Hakoumoff phoned to him and on 21 March, 1921 it was purchased for £9.10s. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71864 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century, second quarter culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. 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