Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Rim and Body Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl rim and body sherd with a polychrome decoration. On the interior surface, there is an underglaze painted design featuring blue, yellow, and orange flowers with green leaves, brown stems, and a brown line below the rim. This is an example of pearlware design #78. The exterior surface is decorated with red flowers with green leaves and stems, and may be a variation of pearlware design #81. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is approximately 22 cm.

• Object number

  1127

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 22 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  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) (624.1127)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded