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Details

Title

Posset Pot

Artist/Maker

Unidentified Artist , Bristol, England

Date

1682

Medium

Tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions

6 3/8 x 10 x 9 inches

Credit

Gift from the Exposition Company for the Frances and Emory Cocke Collection to mark the retirement of Gudmund Vigtel

Accession #

1991.70 a-b

On View

Currently not on view

Posset pots were intended as drinking vessels and typically made in pewter, silver, glass, or tin-glazed earthenware. Popularized in the Elizabethan era, posset is a drink of hot milk mixed with ale, wine, or other liquors and often accompanied by sugar, spices, or other ingredients. The most familiar posset pots, dating to the last quarter of the seventeenth century, were typically double-handled pear shapes with slightly domed lids topped with mushroom-shaped finials.

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