Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Plate

An almost complete Chinese-export porcelain plate with blue underglaze painted central floral motif. The central motif is encircled by a variant of rain and cloud border. The rim is decorated with a blue painted underglaze repeating short angled lines with a straight line beneath. The rim has floral elements and alternates between a shaded triangle with a daisy in the center and a scroll-type variant with flowers and leaves emerging beneath. The plate has a gray/green-tinted glaze. Both the edge of the rim and the footring have heavy wear. The plate is 9 inches in diameter. Consists of ten mended sherds and five sherds that mend but are not mended/glued to the vessel. There is a matching rim sherd from a vessel in a neighboring context, which may indicate that this was part of a set.

• Object number

  279.406, 279.401, 279.402, 279.396, 279.493, 279.59, 279.395, 279.393, 279.394, 279.30, 279.453, 279.82, 279.360, 279.58, 279.531

• Date made

  ca. 1745

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 9 inches

  Height 1.25 inches

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Patterns

  Floral

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Levels 1 and 2 East Side (624.279)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded