Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One Chinese porcelain rim sherd. 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. On the interior, concave surface, there is a dark blue floral or geometric painted underglaze decoration. Possibly part of a plate.

• Object number

  230.38

• Date made

  Post 1630

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Brown Washed Rim (Dressed Rim)

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

• Animals/objects

  Plate

  Flatware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Floor #3 (624.230)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese Porcelain

• Techniques

  Press Molded