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An English delftware posset pot and cover, circa 1720-30 image 1
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Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 104

An English delftware posset pot and cover, circa 1720-30

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,920 inc. premium

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An English delftware posset pot and cover, circa 1720-30

Bristol or London, of large size, the bellied form applied with broad strap handles and a S-shaped spout, painted in full polychrome with birds perched in dense foliage and insects in flight, 22.5cm high (2)

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Provenance
Christie's, 4 June 1979, lot 4
Graham Slater Collection

The addition of bright yellow to the traditional 'Bristol' palette of red, blue and green is rarely encountered on posset pots. A smaller posset pot of similar form and colour palette from the Longridge Collection was sold by Christie's on 25 May 2011, lot 191.

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