IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72394
accession number:	C.1653 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 16 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue and dull red. The pot had a bulbous body with a short cylindrical neck. It has two handles, each formed by two joined rolls of clay with twisted terminals and snakes applied to the backs. On one side there is an applied S-shaped tubular spout (top missing) with a snake applied to the front.  The domed cover has an acorn-shaped knob surmounted by a bird, and two handles pf similar form to those on the pot, but with long snake-like lower terminals extending sideways.  One handle is mainly a plaster replacement. The pot and cover are decorated in red and blue with formal leaves and flowers in panels framed by foliated scrolls, with fern or feather-like motifs between them.  The knob has a formal flower and leaves on each side. The snakes and bird are blue.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and dull red
title:	posset pot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72394





TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1720 - 1730
creation date earliest:	1720
creation date latest:	1730
culture:	1720s
culture:	George I
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Brislington Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 32

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 25.7



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
British Delft at Williamsburg
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