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Lot 879 The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor

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A BRISTOL DELFT NAMED AND DATED POSSET POT, DATED 1743

Closed16 December 2011

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A Bristol Delft Named and Dated Posset Pot, Dated 1743
of typical globular form with tall slightly everted neck, side strap handles, centering the spout, painted in blue on pale blue ground, the neck with acanthus, the body with long-tailed birds perched in trailing flowering branches issuing from rockwork, inscribed along the rear shoulder 'ELIZABETH TAYLOR' above the date 1743 (cover lacking, restored)
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Louis L. Lipski; Sotheby Parke Bernet & co., London, The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware, Part III, 1 March 1983, lot 413.
Michael Jackson, gift to Elizabeth Taylor circa 2000.

Specialist note

See Adrian Henstock et al, Nottingham Salt-glazed Stoneware 1690-1800 Nottingham, 2010, p.36, no. 28 for a Nottingham stoneware octagonal flask named and dated '1717 Elizabeth Taylor'.