Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Teacup

Chinese-export porcelain common-shape teacup base/body sherd with intricately pale red painted enamel decoration. The motif is a petaled design, possibly chrysanthemum, with petals extending outwards around the exterior body of the teacup towards the rim. Most of the decoration has worn away and only a faint impression of this can be seen when viewed at the right angle. The footring is tall and unglazed. The teacup is mended in two sections and consists of seven mended sherds, and one sherd that mends but is not mended to vessel. There is a matching teacup in the same context, as well as a matching saucer, and residual teacup sherds that do not mend to vessel.

• Object number

  430.14, 430.108, 430.100, 430.88, 430.106, 430.120, 430.162, 293.86

• Date made

  Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Dimensions

  Foot Diameter 2 inches

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Red

• Animals/objects

  Teacup

• Patterns

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 28, Privy Deposit: Level 4 (624.430)

• Forms

  Base/Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded