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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Cup

ca. 1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Posset pot of buff-coloured earthenware, coverd with a white slip and decorated with bands and discs of brown slip under a yellow glaze. Globular, with wide spreading mouth.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed earthenware with trailed slip decoration
Brief description
Lead-glazed earthenware posset pot with trailed slip decoration, English, Staffordshire, ca. 1700
Physical description
Posset pot of buff-coloured earthenware, coverd with a white slip and decorated with bands and discs of brown slip under a yellow glaze. Globular, with wide spreading mouth.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 7.9cm
  • Taken from register diameter: 10.8cm
Gallery label
Cup Made in Staffordshire, about 1700 Lead-glazed earthenware with trailed slip decoration 2081-1901 Jermyn Street Collection (formerly Enoch Wood Collection)(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Object history
Formerly Enoch Wood Collection.
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard and Herbert Reed, English Pottery, London, 1924, fig. 40
  • Bossert, H. Th., Peasant Art in Europe, London, 1927, Pl. XLIII (14)
Collection
Accession number
2081-1901

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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