Underglaze Painted Pearlware Body and Rim Sherd

One pearlware body and rim sherd from a hollowware vessel such as a bowl. There is a cobalt blue underglaze painted Chinoiserie landscape with birds around the exterior surface and geometric border along the interior rim. The rim diameter is approximately 20 cm.

• Object number

  161.37

• Date made

  ca. 1775 - ca. 1810

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 20 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

• Color

  Cobalt Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Bowl

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut G Cistern: Blackish Gray Clayey Silt in Feature (Strata 13 and 14) (624.161)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded