Shell Edge Pearlware Bowl

Five body, rim and base sherds from a large pearlware serving bowl. The bowl has a blue underglaze painted and scalloped rim with shell edge decoration on the interior. The body has shallow fluting. Some of the sherds are lightly burned. The base has a large 18th-century wedge-shaped footring. The rim diameter is approximately 8 to 10 inches. This vessel consists of five mended sherds and is cross-mended between contexts.

• Object number

  261.12, 261.52, 256.44, 256.36, 256.210

• Date made

  1775 - 1820

• Dimensions

  Foot Diameter 5 inches

  Height 2.25 inches

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

  Molded Pattern

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

• Patterns

  Shell-Edge Rim

  Fluted

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Level 2 West Side (624.261)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded