Overglaze Printed Creamware Body Sherd

(ca. 1760 - ca. 1780)

Creamware body sherd consisting of 8 mended sherds from a hollowware vessel, likely a pitcher, and two sherds that do not mend but are likely from the same vessel. On the exterior surface, there is a black overglaze bat transfer printed decoration featuring a ship painted yellow with a green ocean. An iron concretion is attached to the lower part of the sherd.

7 Hanover Square

Manhattan, 7 Hanover Square

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