Lot Essay
Examples of similar posset-pots can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Michael Archer, Delftware the Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, p. 262, nos. D.10 (similar form beneath a deeply domed cover) and D.11 (the pot of variant form, the cover similar); also Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, p. 299, no. D274 (identical form) and Simon Sainsbury Collection; Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 25 (the pot of variant form, the cover similar).