Chinese Porcelain Body Sherds

Two mendable curved body sherds from a Chinese-export porcelain hollowware vessel. The sherds are most likely an undecorated portion of a teacup or bowl, or possibly an enameled sherd where the decoration has worn away. The paste has a slightly gray color. Consists of two sherds that mend but are not mended.

• Object number

  279.532, 279.533

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste