Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED AND INITIALED POSSET-POT AND COVER
Lot 142 SYD LEVETHAN: THE LONGRIDGE COLLECTION

AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED AND INITIALED POSSET-POT AND COVER

DATED 1688, LONDON OR BRISTOL

Closed22 January 2021

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED AND INITIALED POSSET-POT AND COVER
DATED 1688, LONDON OR BRISTOL
Decorated throughout in the Chinoiserie taste with birds, flowers and foliage, the spout flanked by inscriptions of '1688' and the initials 'T / I*I', the double scroll handles painted with blue lines, on three bird-form feet
11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high

With Jonathan Horne, London, 2001.

Specialist note


Popular in the 17th century, posset was a hot beverage made of milk curdled with wine or other liquor. It was sometimes taken medicinially, but it was also consumed socially at parties. On the 6th of January 1668, Samuel Pepys is recorded as serving his guests posset, and afterwards they "went to dancing and singing again until two in the morning." See M. Archer, Delftware, the Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, Norwich, 1997, p. 261 for a further discussion of the form.