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Unknown (Perhaps)
Posset pot. Earthenware with slip-trailed decoration under lead glaze. Lower part of pot and base unglazed. Bulbous body with wide flaring mouth and four loop handles (one missing). Round the top the inscription: 'A Present for Thomas Bryan's Wife April 16th 1817'. Below, between the handles, a spray of flowers and rough interlaced or other designs.
History note: Found by the vendor to Glaisher in use as a flower pot at 'Barton-on-Trent quite near the Ticknall pottery'. Purchased in Nottingham by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 1907
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 28.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
Production date:
AD 1817
: dated
No concrete evidence that this pot came from Ticknall. It was said by the vendor to have been found in use as a flower-pot at 'Barton on Trent quite near the Ticknall pottery'.
Inside And Outside
composed of
lead-glaze
( except lower part of pot and base)
Decoration
composed of
slip
Body
Accession number: GL.C.51-1928
Primary reference Number: 77076
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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