Underglaze Painted and Gilded Chinese Porcelain Dish Body/Rim Sherd

Chinese-export porcelain saucer dish body/rim sherd from the late Eighteenth Century. Beneath the rim, the dish has an underglaze painted blue shaded trellis diaper border with spearheads below. Beneath this decoration, there is a the secondary decoration which is also an underglaze painted shaded trellis diaper. There are traces of overglaze gilding along the edge of the rim, although most of this has worn away. The rim measures to 9.25 inches in diameter. Consists of three mended sherds and one sherd that mends but is not mended/glued to vessel. These sherds are most likely residual sherds to a vessel found in a neighboring context but did not mend to that vessel.

• Object number

  293.21, 293.1, 279.385, 279.505

• Date made

  Late Eighteenth Century

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 9.25 inches

• Decoration

  Gilded

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Dish

• Patterns

  Shaded Trellis

  Spearhead

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Level 3 (624.293)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese

• Techniques

  Press Molded