Overglaze Enamel Painted and Fluted Chinese Porcelain Teacup

One mended, lightly fluted Chinese porcelain handleless teacup comprised of five rim, body, and base sherds with a footring. There is an enamel decoration painted over the glaze featuring a purple (manganese) punctuated line along the interior, slightly scalloped rim. The exterior surface is decorated with a purple, parallel lined border filled with purple and blue (cobalt) flowers. There also are traces of purple flowers surrounded by dark green leaves on the body.

• Object number

  1147

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

  Scalloped rim

  Fluted

• Color

  Green

  Purple

  Cobalt Blue

• Animals/objects

  Teacup

  Hollowware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Undisturbed Ceramic Deposit (Red-Brown Sand with Ceramics) (624.1147)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

  Footring

• Ware types

  Chinese Porcelain

• Techniques

  Press Molded