Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Teacup Body Sherds

Six body sherds from a Chinese-export porcelain teacup with intricately painted pale red enamel decoration. The motif consists of small petals and a part of a separate floral element. Most of the exterior enameling has worn away. There is enameled decoration on the interior that is partially worn away and only visible at certain angles. Most likely an unmending residual sherds that belong to one of the matching teacups in the same context.

• Object number

  430.110, 430.154, 430.174, 430.171, 430.173, 430.175

• Date made

  Mid-Eighteenth Century

• 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

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded