Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Body and Rim Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl body and rim sherd with a polychrome design. The interior rim is decorated with an underglaze painted motif featuring two orange lines bordering a partial flower or sun, green leaves, and a hatched blue band. There is a red flower decoration around the exterior surface and a brown line along the exterior rim. This is an example of pearlware design #81. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is 19 cm.

• Object number

  783, 1196

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 19 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Red

  Yellow

  Green

  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) (624.1196)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded