Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Body and Rim Sherd

One mended pearlware bowl body and rim sherd. The interior surface is decorated with a polychrome underglaze painted design between two brown lines featuring yellow and brown pineapples; blue, orange, and yellow flowers; green leaves; and brown stems. On the exterior surface, a single brown line runs along the rim and blue flowers with green leaves and brown stems decorate the body. This is an example of pearlware design #77. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The rim diameter is approximately 23 cm.

• Object number

  507, 516

• Date made

  ca. 1795 - ca. 1815

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 23 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Brown

  Polychrome

  Orange

  Yellow

  Cobalt Blue

  Green

• 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) (624.516)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded