Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Plate Base/Body/Rim Sherd

One Chinese Export porcelain plate base/body/rim sherd with a blue underglaze painted decoration. The central motif is encircled by a blue spearhead diaper pattern. The rim has a fish roe diaper pattern below the edge, with a butterfly, fish roe and floral pattern below. The additional decoration on the rim and the central motif cannot be determined due to the size of the sherd. The base has an unglazed, undercut footring. The butterfly motif suggests that the sherd may be a Nanking-ware from the late Eighteenth to early Nineteenth-century.

• Object number

  279.410

• Date made

  1765 - 1820

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Patterns

  Nanking

• 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

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese

• Techniques

  Press Molded