Sprigged and Painted Pearlware Rim and Body Sherd

One pearlware rim and body sherd from a hollowware vessel such as a tankard or a bowl. The exterior surface has a molded cordoned decoration and two sprigged ribbon decorations colored with a dark blue glaze. May be part of the same vessel as sherd 249.66 There are slight traces of this blue glaze on the interior surface and some discoloration on the glaze and paste, which may be from burning or a privy.

• Object number

  249.28

• Date made

  1775 - 1830

• Decoration

  Sprig Molded

  Underglaze handpainted

  Cordoned

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Bowl

  Tankard

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 28, Deposit Under Floor #3 (624.249)

• Forms

  Body

  Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded

  Burned