IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311378 accession number: C.2-2022 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 18 July 2022 updated: Wednesday 10 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware, thrown, with applied extruded handles, coated on the exterior of the body above the foot with a wide band of white slip, decorated in sgraffito technique (cutting through the slip to reveal the body below), and covered with yellowish lead-glaze. The base is mainly unglazed. The pot is of a squat inverted bell-shape, standing on a circular foot, and has two loop handles with vertical ribbing and a 'kick' at the lower end. The sides are decorated with two wide horizontal bands of 'dicing' (chequer pattern) on either side of a band divided into twelve rectangular panels. On one side the centre panel is occupied by the incised date '1761' surrounded by a border of incised dots, and the other side has a compartment incised with initials 'B K' within a similar border. The panels on either side of the inscriptions and under the handles are each occupied by an incised vertical plant motif. object type: 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 on each side, a rectangular cartouche, one with the date '1761'and the other with the letters 'BK' . title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance unknown prior to mid-twentieth century. Previously with Jonathan Horne Antiques Ltd and entered the Longridge collection (no. 576) though apparently not amongst the pieces sold at Christie's but instead sold privately. At some point purchased by Micheál and Elizabeth Fuller of Upper Slaughter. Sold at Woolley & Wallis, 10 November 2021, Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2, p. 197, lot 490, where it was purchased by the vendor, E. & H. Manners, Kensington Church Street, London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2022 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311378 SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1761 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1761 culture: third quarter of 18th century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 31.3 CITATIONS -------- Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800 English Slip-decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg The Incomparable Art. English Pottery from the Thomas Greg Collection Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Josiah Wedgwood and Engine-Turned Decoration: Experimentation, Frustration and Tenacity ---