Live Auction 2388The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III
Lot 340

AN ENGLISH DELFT POSSET-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1685-90, POSSIBLY BRISTOL OR BRISLINGTON, BLUE 2 TO BOTH COVER AND POT

Closed26 January 2010

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POSSET-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1685-90, POSSIBLY BRISTOL OR BRISLINGTON, BLUE 2 TO BOTH COVER AND POT
Of waisted form, the stepped domed cover with an inverted acorn-shaped finial surmounted by a bird, the cover and pot flanked by double scroll handles entwined with hissing snakes, the spout with a S-scroll support and snake, painted overall with birds and insects among flowers, the rim with a lappet band
13¾ in. (34.9 cm.) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide (2)

Mrs. Marion Morgan and Brian Morgan.
John Philip Kassebaum Collection; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 12.
With Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire.

Specialist note

For a similar example dated 1697 see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, p. 934 (cover missing) . Also see Bernard Rackham, The Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, Cambridge, 1935, p. 106-107 for two Brislington examples dated 1685-1686 and 1687. Also note Jonathan Horne, 'A Collection of Early English Pottery', part III, no. 56.