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Lot 61

An English delftware posset pot, probably Bristol, circa 1710-30

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £637.50 inc. premium

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An English delftware posset pot, probably Bristol, circa 1710-30

With a round or baluster body applied with S-shaped handles and the remains of a spout on one side, painted in red, blue and green with floral sprays, some placed within panels on a scrollwork ground, 14.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Pelham Olive Collection

Exhibited
The Merchant's House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 2010-18

For related examples see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), figs.4.2 and 4.11.

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