Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Teacups

Three mended, slightly fluted Chinese porcelain teacups comprised of rim, body, and base sherds with footrings. There is a European-style red enamel decoration painted over the glaze featuring a single star-like design or possible Chinese character in the center of the interior bowl and a red, parallel lined border with heart shapes along the interior, scalloped rim. Additional rim fragments reveal enameled floral designs and dots within this border. The exterior surface has traces of a decoration featuring pink roses surrounded by gilded leaves outlined in dark green. There is wavy red punctuated line below the exterior rim. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The base diameter is approximately 1.5 inches.

• Object number

  1196

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 1.5 inches

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

  Scalloped rim

  Gilded

  Fluted

• Color

  Green

  Red

  Pink

• Animals/objects

  Teacup

  Hollowware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Undisturbed Ceramic Deposit (Red-Brown Sand with Ceramics) (624.1196)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

  Footring

• Ware types

  Chinese Porcelain

• Techniques

  Press Molded