Cooking Pots and Old Curios - the Posnet and Skillet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David J Eveleigh (corresponding author), David Eveleigh |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-32 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/flk.1993.32.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2056140650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This fine piece of calligraphy is an exhibition label, written in 1949, for a display of skillets arranged for the opening of Blaise Castle House Museum in May ofthat year. It is a succinct and — as far as it goes — an accurate definition of a cooking utensil common to many museum collections.However, skillets are something of an enigma. Little is known of their use, the mottoes remain unexplained — or misunderstood — and the makers' names largely unidentified. The Oxford English Dictionary is uncertain as to the origin of the word and also of ‘posnet’, an alternative name. Both are found in documents from the thirteenth century and are probably Old French in origin. An essential feature of skillets and posnets is that they are metal utensils: usually either sheet brass sitting in an iron tripod frame or cast from alloys of copper
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Calligraphy · Coffin · Exhibition · Literature · Painting · Visual arts · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2011 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |