IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72394 accession number: C.1653 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72394 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 1720s culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum British Delft at Williamsburg --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 589 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 645 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 589 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 323 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 652 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 326 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 569 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 668 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 569 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1653_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 250 pixels