Shell Edge Pearlware Body and Rim Sherd

One mended pearlware body and rim sherd from a hollowware vessel such as a bowl or chamber pot. The interior surface of the body is slightly fluted. The rim is scalloped and decorated with a green underglaze painted Rococo-inspired molded shell edge on the interior surface. The green glaze extends over the top of the rim. The rim diameter is approximately 20 cm.

• Object number

  109.60, 109.93

• Date made

  1775 - 1810

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 20 cm

• Decoration

  Underglaze handpainted

  Scalloped edge

  Fluted

• Color

  Green

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

  Bowl

  Chamber Pot

• Patterns

  Shell-Edge Rim

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

  Sanitary

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut G Cistern: Deposit Outside and Below Top of Feature (Strata 9, 10, 11) (624.109)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded