Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Plate Rim Sherd

One Chinese-export porcelain plate rim sherd with a blue underglaze painted trellis pattern around the rim. The edge of the rim is brown dressed/washed. The sherd is most likely from an octagonally trimmed plate.

• Object number

  1153.1

• Date made

  1785 - 1800

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

  Brown Washed Rim (Dressed Rim)

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Patterns

  Trellis in Blue

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 27*, Test Cut AT: Mixed Deposits #3, Mostly Yellow Silt, Blue Gray Clay (624.1153)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese

• Techniques

  Press Molded