Underglaze Painted Pearlware Tea Bowl Rim Sherd

One mended pearlware rim sherd from a tea bowl or other hollowware vessel with a polychrome decoration. On the interior surface, there is a blue and brown underglaze painted decoration inside two parallel brown lines, which form a border around the rim. The border is filled with a design consisting of a brown ribbons, brown flowers with blue centers, and regularly spaced blue tassels. This is an example of pearlware design #24. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is 13 cm.

• Object number

  542, 783

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 13 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Bowl

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Soil Between Burned Floor and Ceramic Deposit (624.542)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded