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AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE POLYCHROME POSSET POT AND COVER CIRCA 1700-1715
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description
- height 8 3/4 in.
- 22.2 cm
probably Bristol, painted with oriental figures at various pursuits in a garden and affixed on either side with a tightly coiled flattened handle applied with a serpent, the cover similarly decorated. Some chips and minor restoration.
Provenance
D. M. & P. Manheim Antiques, New York
Acquired from the above, 1973
Acquired from the above, 1973
Catalogue Note
Similar posset pots are illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, pp. 72 and 73, nos. 4.13 and 4.14, and by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, pp. 310 and 311, no. D285.