Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl

One mended pearlware bowl consisting of rim, body, base, and footring sherds with a polychrome design. The interior surface is decorated with a red/orange and brown underglaze painted flower with green leaves in the center of the bowl and a brown line below the interior rim. The exterior surface is decorated with a yellow band outlined in dark brown below the rim, a brown design reminiscent of wheat ears around the circumference of the bowl, and a wavy dotted blue line. This is an example of pearlware design #5. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The base diameter is approximately 9.5 cm., the rim diameter is 18.5 cm., and the height is 8 cm.

• Object number

  783

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 9.5 cm

  Height 8 cm

  Rim Diameter 18.5 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Yellow

  Green

  Red/Orange

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Bowl

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Undisturbed Ceramic Deposit (Red-Brown Sand with Ceramics) (624.783)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

  Footring

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded