Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

Saltglaze Pounce Pot, English, circa 1750

About the Item

A charming pounce pot, or sander, in sale-glazed earthenware. Unusually good condition. These were used to sprinkle pounce on writing paper; pounce was powdered cuttle-fish, and it stopped the ink being absorbed into the paper. Prov: Troy Chappell coll, from Jonathan Horne; J&K Chorley.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)Diameter: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Style:
    Neoclassical (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Stoneware,Turned
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    circa 1750
  • Condition:
    Repaired: Restored edge chip.
  • Seller Location:
    Melbourne, AU
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 46541stDibs: LU3151331941612

More From This Seller

View All
Saltglaze "King of Prussia" Plate, English, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A salt-glaze plate, probably made about the time of Frederick the Great's successes in the Seven Years War and his convention with England in 1756 against France and her Allies.  ...
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Saltglaze plate, from a service for King George III, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A mosaic pattern plate in saltglaze earthenware, with a an early transfer-print of the Royal Arms used during this period. This coat of arms was used by both George II and George III...
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Miniature Salt Glaze Jug, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming, small jug in salt-glazed earthenware. Plain: just the way we like it.  
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Miniature Salt Glaze teapot, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, one-cup teapot in undecorated salt-glazed earthenware. The size reflects the early custom of a pot to each tea drinker.    
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Delft Charger, Coursing a Stag, English, circa 1710
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tin glazed earthenware (Delftware) dish, in an unusual shape; elaborately and skillfully painted with a man coursing a stag. Probably London; perhaps Bristol. Probably the salver for a large ewer. English Delftware is considered to be one of the most important forms of English ceramic production of the period, and it had a major influence on the development of the British ceramics...
Category

Antique Early 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Baluster-Form Saltglaze Teapot, Decorated with Faulous Beasts, England, C1745
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with fabulous beasts and birds.
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

You May Also Like

Staffordshire Pottery Figural Pounce or Pepper Pot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful novelty antique English pottery figure of a man pounce or pepper pot dating from Staffordshire and dating from the 19th century. The pottery figure stands raised on a rounded base and portrays a portly man dressed in period costume wearing breaches, waistcoat and jacket with a bow tied neckerchief. He wears a tricorn hat on his head which contains the pouring holes for the pot. The hollow bodied man...
Category

Antique 19th Century English Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Saltglaze Crock
Located in New York, NY
Cover has tiny piece of glaze which has been glued back on after chip
Category

Antique 1880s English Pottery

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Saltglaze Pitcher
Located in New York, NY
Hand-picked by buyers at Ann Morris Inc.
Category

Antique 19th Century English Pottery

Materials

Pottery

19th Century Saltglaze Teapot
Located in New York, NY
Hand-picked by buyers at Ann Morris Inc.
Category

Antique Late 19th Century English Pottery

Materials

Pottery

English Stoneware Pottery Redware Coffee Pot
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Stoneware Pottery Redware Stoneware Engine Turned Coffee Pot, Staffordshire, Circa 1765 A Staffordshire redware stoneware coffee pot and cover with an engine-turned body and...
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Pottery

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Set of 19th Century Saltglaze Bottles
Located in New York, NY
Hand-picked by buyers at Ann-Morris Inc.
Category

Antique 1860s English Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Recently Viewed

View All