IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311378 accession number: C.2-2022 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 18 July 2022 updated: Friday 23 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 two rectangular cartouches with the date '1761'and another 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 part of the Longridge collection (no. 576) though apparently not amongst the pieces sold at Christie's but instead sold privately. At some point purchased by Michael and Elizabeth Fuller of Upper Slaughter. Sold their sale (day 2) at Woolley & Wallis (10 November 2021, lot 490), where it was purchased by the vendor, E. & H. Manners. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum Acquisition Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311378 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazed TECHNIQUES ---------- thrown CATEGORIES ------ category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1761 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1761 CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 31.3 CITATIONS -------- 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 ---