Posnet

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Posnet

Entry/Object ID

VC.59.481

Description

Pot, trifoot: Handled.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1700 - 1799 Date made: r. 1700 - 1799

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

Handle marked: "COX TAUNTON II".

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 8 in. (20.3 cm)

Material

Bell-metal

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Posnet might have been cast in Taunton, England; Taunton, Massachusetts; or Taunton, Burlington County, New Jersey. All three Tauntons were the locations of furnaces.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Storeroom/Curatorial Storage