Underglaze Painted Pearlware Saucers

Two mended pearlware saucers consisting of rim, body, base, and footring sherds. The interior surface is decorated with a double brown line below the interior rim with yellow leaves and polychrome underglaze painted floral designs featuring blue and yellow flowers and green leaves. The decoration colors primarily consist of yellow, brown, green, and blue. There is a brown painter's mark on the exterior surface of the base. This is an example of pearlware design #30. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The base diameter is approximately 9.5 cm., the rim diameter is 16 cm., and the height is 4 cm.

• Object number

  783

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 9.5 cm

  Rim Diameter 16 cm

  Height 4 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Painter's mark

• Color

  Blue

  Yellow

  Brown

  Green

  Polychrome

• 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) (624.783)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

  Footring

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded