Posset Pots Photos

Posset is an English hot spiced milk drink curdled with wine or ale with bread added. Posset was consumed in early America (17th and early 18th C). Posset Pots are recognized by double handles and spouts which come off the bottom of these covered pots. The bottom spout was required because the alcoholic liquid sat on the bottom, while a custard and curds floated in upper levels. It is said that spouts were often shared by all present.

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Earthenware posset pot with Chinese figures (c1650-1700) from England at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT.	Ceramic posset pot (late 17th- early 18thC) at Culloden Moor Visitor Centre. Culloden Moor, Scotland.	Slipware posset pot with tulips inscribed "The best is not too good for you // Robbort Wood" (1670-75) over honey pot (1680-1700) both made in North Straffordshire at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot in Chinese style (1670) from Southwark, London at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.

Silver posset pot (aka spout cup) (c1680-1700) by Jeremiah Drummer of Boston at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.	Covered posset pot with Chinese figures on English delftware (c1680-90) from Lambeth at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON.	Slipware posset pot & bowl (c1680-1700) made in North Straffordshire at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	Slipware posset pot (c1680-1700) prob. Staffordshire at National Museum of Wales. Cardiff, Wales.

Silver posset cup (1682-3) from London at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC.	Lead-glazed earthenware posset pot with two spouts (1682) prob made in Barnstaple, North Devon perhaps as betrothal gift at British Museum. London, United Kingdom.	Posset pot with Chinese figures on English delftware (1687) from Bristol or Brislington at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (c1690) for milk curdled with wine at DAR Memorial Continental Hall Museum. Washington, DC.

Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (c1690) from Bristol, England at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.	English glass posset cups (c1690-1750) at Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY.	Glazed earthenware posset pot (1692) inscribed George Taylor from Straffordshire at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	Slipware posset pot with tulips inscribed "The best is not too good for you" + initial RF & IB (1696) made in North Straffordshire at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Slip decorated posset pot or jug (1697) by Henry Ifield of Wrotham, Kent at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (1700-25) from Lambeth, England at Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.	Posset pot with Chinese figures on English delftware (1700-20) prob. London at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON.	Covered posset pot with red, blue & green flowers on English delftware (1700-20) from Bristol or London at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON.

Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (1702) prob. from London at Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, England.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (1705-10) from England at Concord Museum. Concord, MA.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot (1710-40) probably from Bristol, England at Bayou Bend. Houston, TX.	Tin-glazed earthenware double-covered posset pot (c1720) from London, England at Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.

Slip decorated posset pot with scratched design (1723) by potter with initials IG made in North Straffordshire at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot painted in oriental style (1730-40). made in Bristol or Brislington at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.	White posset pot (18thC) for mix of curdled milk & wine beside ewer painted with peacock (18thC) both from England at Buttolph-Williams House. Wethersfield, CT.	Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot painted in oriental style (mid 18thC) prob. made in Bristol at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Redware posset pot (1830) to sip liquid below soggy bread upper posset layer at Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, VT.	Ceramic posset pot at Joshua Hempstead House. New London, CT.	Clear glass Lismullen posset bowl which belonged to King William III who left it with John Dillon of Lismullen after Battle of the Boyne at National Museum Decorative Arts & History. Dublin, Ireland.	Covered posset pot with Chinese figures on English delftware (c early 1700s) at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON.

Tin-glazed earthenware posset pot in Georgian room at Gladstone's Land tenement house. Edinburgh, Scotland.


See Also:	Ceramic Arts