Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One cup or bowl rim sherd made of Chinese porcelain. The interior surface has a painted blue underglaze decoration featuring a cross-hatched design and oxhead border around the interior rim. There is a brown painted line atop the surface of the rim. Known as a brown washed or brown dressed rim, this treatment was applied beginning around the 1630's to strengthen vessel rims and thin out fragile glaze.

• Object number

  234.44

• Date made

  Post 1630

• Decoration

  Brown Washed Rim (Dressed Rim)

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

• Animals/objects

  Cup

  Bowl

  Hollowware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Between Floors #2 and #3 (624.234)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese Porcelain

• Techniques

  Press Molded