An extremely rare Dutch Delft blue and white posset pot, early 18th C.

L.: 27,5 (incl. the cover) - H.: 22 cm

Marked LVE on the base for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, the 'De Metaale Pot' workshop, Delft, 1691-1724. Signed by master painter Johannes Peridon, dating the piece between 1700 and 1710.
Delftware posset pots are more commonly found in English Delftware, as the tradition of making posset was more common in Britain.

Provenance: An important Belgian private collection.

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition, the glaze well preserved and the overall appearance very attractive. The repairs to baking-related tension lines as mentioned below all executed to a good standard, almost invisible to the naked eye and not excessively applied.
- The lid with a stable, baking-related tension line visible on the exterior, retouched on the interior. Otherwise good with a few typical small superficial rim chips.
- The pot with a stable, baking-related tension line on the bottom, retouched on both in- and exterior. Otherwise good with a few typical small superficial rim chips.

Ref.:
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Accession no. A 3322 a-b (KN&V), for the only other recorded example. (link)
- Two other Dutch Delft posset pots are known, one in blue and manganese, previously with Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam (link) and one in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany. Both are signed SVE for Samuel van Eenhoorn, the brother of Lambertus.