Posset Pot
Unidentified Artist , Bristol, England

Details
Title
Posset Pot
Artist/Maker
Unidentified Artist , Bristol, England
Date
1682
Medium
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
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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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