Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Body Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl body sherd with a polychrome decoration. On the interior surface, there is a polychrome underglaze painted design featuring a red strawberry with brown seeds and and green leaves surrounded by brown swirls. This is an example of pearlware design #25. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present.

• Object number

  1127

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Green

  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

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded