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Posset is a mixture of hot milk and spices curdled with ale or wine. Syllabub is a rich mixture of cream, typically flavoured with sherry or sack. The spout allowed the drinker to enjoy the liquid ale or sack that had separated below the thick layer of curdled posset or creamy syllabub.\t\r\n\r\nThere are several marks struck on the side by the spout and on top of the cover. One is the Norwich hallmark, the castle and lion. The crowned rose hallmark, added in the early 17th century, was changed to a stalked rose at the end of the period 1600-1700. The letter T is the date letter for 1642-3 and there is also the mark of the maker, Timothy Skottowe.\r\n\r\nThe scroll handle is formed of a strip between two scrolled plates. The front was engraved at a later date with a coat of arms within a plume mantling surmounted by a crest. 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An early reference occurs in the play Sir G.Goosecappe (1606) to 'posset Cuppes carv'd with Libberds faces and Lyons heads, with spouts in their mouths to let out the posset ale'.","briefDescription":"Silver, Norwich hallmarks for 1642-3, mark of Timothy Skottowe","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Philippa Glanville and Sophie Lee, eds., <u>The Art of Drinking</u>, V&A Publications, London, 2007, p. 118"}],"production":"Maker's mark for Timothy Skottowe\n\nAttribution note: Because the spout had been considered a possible addition, it and the body were tested by spectographic analysis. 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