Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Base and Body Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl base with a footring and polychrome decoration. On the interior surface, there is an underglaze painted design featuring blue, yellow, and orange flowers with green leaves and brown stems close to where the rim of the vessel would be. This is an example of pearlware design #78. The floral motif on the face of the bowl may be a variation of pearlware design #80. 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 base diameter is approximately 12 cm.

• Object number

  1127, 1196

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 12 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) (624.1196)

• Forms

  Footring

  Base/Body

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded