IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74141 accession number: C.286 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 19 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware, thrown, coated inside and out with white slip, and slip-trailed in dark red, olive-green, and white slips under yellowish lead glaze; base unglazed. Cylindrical with two S-shaped handles. Decorated round the top with a slip-trailed inscription, 'THE BEST IS NOT TOO GOOD FOR YOV 1692'. Below this, on each side, is a pair of stylized tulips separated by vesica-motifs, the latter made up of studs of slip with star impressions of a cut stick. The lid is left red without a coating of white, and is decorated with quatrefoils in white ouline filled in with olive-green slip shwoing the impression of a textile mesh. object type: Earthenware, slip-decorated, and lead glazed title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given about 1840 to Mrs Wilson ffrance of Rawcliffe hall, near Garstang, Lancashire, by a farmer on the Rawcliffe estate; Margaret, youngest daughter of Thomas Robert Wilson of Rawcliffe Hall, Lancashire on June 6, 1859 married John Thomas Massy-Westroff of Attyflin, Co. Limerick; their eldest child, Mary Georgina, married on May 17, 1905 Arthur White; Mrs Westroff-White widowed and still of Attyflin, concerned for its safety because of the political situation, sold the pot for £100 in April 1922 through Rupert Gelston to Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Gelston despatched it to his and Glaisher's mutual friends, Col. and Mrs. W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth, where it arrived on 26 April, and was unpacked by the Dicksons and Glaisher. 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/74141 CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1692 - 1692 creation date earliest: 1692 creation date latest: 1692 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III and Mary II CREATORS -------- maker: uncertain DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 29 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Early Staffordshire Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/C_286_1928_1_201405_kly25_mas.jpg height: 919 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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