Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Saucer Body Sherd

Very small body sherd from a Chinese-export porcelain saucer with intricately painted pale red enamel decoration. The motif consists of enameled small repeating petals on the interior. Most of the enameling has worn away. Most likely an unmending residual sherd that belongs to the saucer in the neighboring context.

• Object number

  279.378

• Date made

  Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Red

• Animals/objects

  Saucer

• Patterns

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded