Posset Pot
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Posset Pot
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Unidentified Artist , Bristol, England
Date
1682
Medium
Tin-glazed earthenware
Accession #
1991.70 a-b
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Not on View
Description
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.