Painted Pearlware Saucer

One mended pearlware saucer consisting of rim, body, base, and footring sherds with a polychrome design. The interior surface is lightly fluted and decorated with two parallel brown underglaze painted lines below the interior, slightly scalloped rim. The bottom line is unshaded. The border created by the two parallel lines is filled with half circles in blue and orange and a wavy brown vine. There is an orange and brown flower in the center of the bowl and a brown painter's mark on the exterior surface of the base. This is an example of pearlware design #6. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The base diameter is approximately 8 cm., the rim diameter is 13.5 cm., and the height is 4 cm.

• Object number

  1196

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 8 cm

  Height 4 cm

  Rim Diameter 13.5 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Scalloped rim

  Painter's mark

  Fluted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Orange

• Animals/objects

  Saucer

  Flatware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

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

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

  Footring

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded