Incised Salt-Glazed Stoneware Body Sherd

One mended gray bodied salt glazed stoneware body sherd from a large hollowware vessel, likely a storage jug or jar. There is a chocolate brown slip on the interior surface. The exterior is mottled brown with traces of an incised decoration with an underglaze painted cobalt (blue) slip that has fired dark gray/blue.

• Object number

  96.7, 96.97, 189.6

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Incised curved lines

• Color

  Cobalt Blue

  Brown

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Jug

  Jar

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Food Preparation/Storage

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut G Cistern: Deposit Outside and Above Top of Feature (Strata 1, 3, 4, 6) (624.96)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Salt-Glazed

• Techniques

  Wheel turned