Posset Pot

Posset, a beverage made of milk and wine or ale, was often served on special occasions during the 18th century, although it had originally been drunk for medicinal reasons.

Tin-glazed earthenware, or low-fired earthenware covered with a glaze mixed with tin-oxide to make it opaque, was introduced into England from the Netherlands in the last half of the 16th century. By the late 17th century, this new pottery was called delftware in England for Delft, Holland, the major center of this ware's production. Often in imitation of Chinese export blue and white porcelains, Europeans created white wares decorated with blue and polychrome designs. Another source of decoration was tin-glazed earthenware from Italy, called maiolica. Delftware was made for many levels of society in a variety of decorative and functional types.