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English Delftware posset pot with Chinese figures in a landscape

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An image of English Delftware. Posset pot and cover. Brislington Pottery, possibly. The pot has a bulbous body with a short straight neck, and is supported on three small feet in the shape of birds. It has a sucking spout decorated with a zig-zag of clay on the front and two loop handles each having a snake on the back with a small bird perching on it. On either side of the handles there are spirals of clay. The domed cover (A) has a flange round the edge, a pierced ball finial, and handles similar to those on the pot. The body and cover are painted with Chinese figures in landscapes and with the inscription '16/G/IA/86' on the front to the viewer's left of the spout. Buff earthenware, the body thrown, with applied feet, handles, and pierced knob, tin-glazed pale turquoise-blue, and painted in blue high-temperature colour, height, whole, 28.6 cm, dated 1686. Baroque. Chinoiserie.

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English Delftware. Posset pot and cover. Brislington Pottery, possibly. The pot has a bulbous body with a short straight neck, and is supported on three small feet in the shape of birds. It has a sucking spout decorated with a zig-zag of clay on the front and two loop handles each having a snake on the back with a small bird perching on it. On either side of the handles there are spirals of clay. The domed cover (A) has a flange round the edge, a pierced ball finial, and handles similar to those on the pot. The body and cover are painted with Chinese figures in landscapes and with the inscription '16/G/IA/86' on the front to the viewer's left of the spout. Buff earthenware, the body thrown, with applied feet, handles, and pierced knob, tin-glazed pale turquoise-blue, and painted in blue high-temperature colour, height, whole, 28.6 cm, dated 1686. Baroque. Chinoiserie.

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  • Accession Number: C.1505 & A-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 70
  • Camera: NIKON D800
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 857 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 656.64kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2014:03:07 12:30:53

Key words

17th Century Baroque birds blue and white Brislington Pottery Chinese Style Chinoiserie cover earthenware English English Delftware figures finial Fitz_AA glazed handle handled landscape lidded Orientalism pierced posset pot pottery Restoration snake spout spouted thrown tin-glazed

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