M0015565: Posset pot, English delftware, c.1730

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Posset pot. English delftware, circa 1730.

Photograph of an English delftware posset pot, c.1730. Polychrome with imitation Chinese design. This has been attributed to Niglett, Bristol, c.1730, but is more probably Lambeth c.1690. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1916 and accessioned in 1916 (accession number R9084). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

December 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R9084

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.