Fluted and Underglaze Painted Pearlware Teapot

One mended pearlware hollowware vessel, likely a teapot, consisting of body and base sherds and attachments for a handle and spout with a partial rose still visible. The exterior surface is fluted and decorated with red/orange underglaze painted flowers with green leaves and brown stems as well as a more elaborate floral motif featuring blue and orange flowers. This is a possible example of pearlware design #43. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. May be part of the same vessel as mended sherds 1108, 1108.101, and 1127 and mended rose sherds 542. The base diameter is approximately 9 cm.

• Object number

  516, 542, 783

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 9 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Fluted

• Color

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Blue

  Green

  Red/Orange

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Teapot

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Undisturbed Ceramic Deposit (Red-Brown Sand with Ceramics) (624.516)

• Forms

  Handle Fragment

  Spout

  Base/Body

  Rose

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded