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Buff earthenware, slip-trailed in dark and pale red and white slips and lead-glazed. Cylindrical with two loop handles. Round the top, a slip-trailed inscription 'THE.BEST.IS.NOT.TOO.GOOD. FOR.YOV 1697'. Below on each side is a panel decorated with a stylized tulip flanked by foliage and initials, on one side 'IB' and on the other, 'WS'.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 28.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 17th Century
William III (1750-1702)
Production date:
AD 1697
: dated
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark and pale red, and white)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.248-1928
Primary reference Number: 73575
Old object number: 4729
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Posset pot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73575 Accessed: 2023-06-08 10:10:13
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-08 10:10:13|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.1504 & A-1928
Accession Number: C.107A & B-1928
Accession Number: C.427-1928
Accession Number: C.227-1928
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