Overglaze Printed and Painted Creamware Pitcher Body Sherd

Creamware body sherd from a hollowware vessel, likely a tankard, consisting of two mended sherds. On the exterior surface, there is a black overglaze bat transfer-printed decoration painted green and yellow over the glaze.

• Object number

  1151.177, 1151.227

• Date made

  ca. 1760 - ca. 1780

• Decoration

  Printed

  Overglaze

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Green

  Yellow

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Pitcher

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 27* Ceramic Shop Deposit: Disturbed Ceramic Deposit, West Portion (Dark Brown Silty Sand with Rocks) (624.1151)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Creamware

• Techniques

  Press Molded