Posset Pot

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Object Name: 
Posset Pot
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, London
Accession Number: 
79.2.74
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.8 cm, W: 13 cm, D: 9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1676-1677
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Web Description: 
This colorless, lead glass pot was used for drinking posset, a beverage of hot milk curdled with wine or ale, usually spiced or sweetened, and thickened with oatmeal or bread. The liquid was sucked through the spout, and the residue was eaten with a spoon. The A raven’s head seal is located on the spout of this vessel.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979-03-22
Category: 
19th Century European
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
molding
Material: 
lead glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Posset Pot. Colorless lead glass; blown, molded, applied. Straight-sided bucket bowl with rounded, gadrooned base; pair of applied loop handles with curled attachments at the bottom; applied S-shaped spout with applied raven's-head impressed seal at the base; rough pontil mark.

Exhibitions (5)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1993-04-24 through 1994-12-31
 
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Yokohama Museum of Art 1992-10-12 through 1992-12-13
The England of William Penn, 1644-1718
Venue(s)
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University 1982-09-08 through 1982-10-31
 
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (13)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 17 (fig. 4);
The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, p. 54 (fig. 5);
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 172, #21; BIB# 103865
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 82, #76; BIB# 35679
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 27, #41; BIB# 58995
The England of William Penn, 1644-1718 (1982) p. 62; BIB# 22536
English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, p. 310, fig. 1; BIB# AI7962
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 109, #33; BIB# AI9181
George Ravenscroft: New Light on the Development of His 'Christalline Glasses' (1968) p. 167, #G. 1; BIB# AI83950
George Ravenscroft and His Contributions to English Glassmaking (1967-12) p. 825, #6;
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, pp. 93-94, #232; BIB# 27783
Some Pre-Ravenscroft Glasses (1950-05) p. 88, #1;
Annus Mirabilis (1949-12) p. 16, #27;