Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Bowl

A Chinese-export porcelain bowl base/body/rim sherd with blurry blue underglaze painted motif around the exterior body and a brown dressed rim. The exterior rim has a rough, trellis-like scroll border with fish roe decoration and hanging flowers. The central motif is similar to a pavilion landscape, with a figure on a bridge, trees, a body of water, three small boats with a figure in each, and a tea house. The bowl has a gently scalloped rim and the body is double-curved form. The footring is a high wedge and is unglazed. There is no interior decoration. Consists of ten mended sherds and two sherds that mend but are not mended to vessel.

• Object number

  279.392, 279.154, 279.411, 279.418, 279.329, 279.414, 279.417, 279.274, 279.273, 279.261, 256.142, 256.60

• Date made

  ca. 1810 or later

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 5 inches

  Height 2.5 inches

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

  Molded Pattern

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

• Patterns

  Scalloped

  Pavilion Landscape

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Level 1 West Side (624.256)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese Porcelain