Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Rim and Body Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl rim and body sherd with a polychrome decoration. Along the interior rim, there is an underglaze painted design featuring orange and yellow ovals, yellow and orange tulips with blue stems, and two brown lines. Green leaves and a wavy brown line with green, orange, and blue dots also decorate the rim. This is an example of pearlware design #82. The exterior surface is decorated with a brown line along the rim and red flowers with green leaves and brown stems on the body. This 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

  516, 1127

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 22 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Yellow

  Green

  Orange

  Red

• 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