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Vander Sande Collection | Session I | March 12, 2025

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Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms.
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Lot 507

English Delft Lidded Posset Pot

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Starting Bid
$4,000

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possibly Bristol, late 17th/early 18th century, lid and body with uniquely scrolled handles and decoration, the spout with applied snake, blue and white floral, avian, and insect decoration, lid with acorn finial, 8-3/4 x 9-1/4 x 7-3/4 in. 

Provenance: BF Edwards Collection; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Note: A similar example from the same collection sold at Christie's New York, The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III January 26, 2010 lot 340 for $27,500. Another similar example sold at Christie's New York, Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection May 25, 2011 lot 190 for GBP 6,250.

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BF Edwards Collection; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

acorn finial likely replaced, scattered anomalies, pinholes, crazing, and glaze voids, some chips and losses at high relief areas, surface dirt and accretion, likely oversprayed with repairs, hairline at rim