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 red strawberries with brown seeds and and green leaves. A double brown line, brown swirls, and a border of blue half circles also decorate the rim. The exterior surface is decorated with a brown line along the rim and orange flowers with brown stems and green leaves on the body. This is an example of pearlware design #25. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is approximately 22 cm.

• Object number

  1108, 1127

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 22 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Blue

  Brown

  Polychrome

  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