Underglaze Painted Pearlware Bowl Base Sherd

(ca. 1795 - ca. 1815)

One mended pearlware bowl base sherd with a footring and a polychrome design. The interior surface is decorated with a red/orange and brown underglaze painted flower with green leaves in the center of the bowl. There is a brown painter's mark on the exterior surface of the base. This is an example of pearlware design #5. Additional base, body, and rim fragments featuring this design are present. The base diameter is approximately 9.5 cm.

7 Hanover Square

Manhattan, 7 Hanover Square

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