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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Potter:
Rotherhithe Pottery
(Possibly)
Buff earthenware, the body thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Bucket-shaped body with slightly spreading foot, slightly concave underneath, applied tubular spout and two strap handles each with two vertical grooves on the exterior and pinched lower terminal. The almost flat cover has a finial in the form of a bulbous vase with a stopper. The sides are decorated with 'birds-on-rocks' pattern with at the back a trellis border above and below, and at the front below. Above at the front is the inscription 'STEPHEN GARDNER 1631' between groups of three narrow horizontal bands. The spout and outside of the handles are blue, and there is a blue band round the edge of the foot. The cover is decorated to match.
History note: Christie's London, 12 December 1918, lot 27, the property of a gentleman; bought for 68 guineas by Mr Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge who paid him £92.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.9 cm
Height: 8¼ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second quarter#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1631
Made in Southwark, probably at the Pickleherring or Rotherhithe potteries.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glazed
Body
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1294 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 71742
Old object number: 4045
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Posset pot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71742 Accessed: 2024-04-18 19:24:36
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Accession Number: C.1504 & A-1928
Accession Number: C.107A & B-1928
Accession Number: C.286 & A-1928
Accession Number: C.427-1928
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