Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Rim Sherd

(ca. 1795 - ca. 1815)

One mended pearlware bowl rim sherd decorated with a polychrome underglaze painted design. On the interior surface, there is a single brown line along the rim. Yellow festoons with brown gatherings and blue and red/orange flower buds painted between two brown lines decorate the exterior surface just below the rim. This is an example of pearlware design #58. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is approximately 18 cm.

7 Hanover Square

Manhattan, 7 Hanover Square

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