Combed Red Bodied Slipware Body Sherd

One red bodied slipware body sherd. There is a clear glaze on the interior surface as well as five rows of combed white slip, which appears yellow. The exterior surface is unglazed. Likely part of a hollowware vessel. This may be an example of American-made slipware, possibly in manufactured in Philadelphia or New York City in the Philadelphia style.

• Object number

  86.161

• Decoration

  Combed

• Color

  Yellow

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Coarse Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut G Cistern: Deposit Outside and Above Top of Feature (Strata 1, 3, 4, 6) (624.86)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Red bodied slipware