Pounce Pot
ca. 1820
Maker Unknown
Decorative Arts
Pounce pots were filled with a powder, often made from dried fishbone, that was sprinkled on ink to secure writing to paper.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- (not assigned)
- Formatted Medium
- Staffordshire earthenware
- Medium
- staffordshire, earthenware
- Dimensions
- 2 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (7 x 6.5 cm)
- Inscribed
- no inscriptions
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 62.78.11
- Credit Line
- Gift of H. Randolph Lever in memory of Mary E. Lever
- Exhibitions
- Infinite Blue
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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