Overglaze Enamel Painted Floral Creamware Teapot Body Sherd

One creamware body sherd with a neck/collar from a squared shoulder teapot. The body is painted with a polychrome floral overglaze enamel decoration featuring red, yellow and pink flowers with green leaves and brown stems. Some of the enameled decoration has worn off and only a faint ghost image can be seen.

• Object number

  1124.6

• Date made

  1765 - 1815

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Polychrome

• Animals/objects

  Teapot

• Patterns

  Floral

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 27*, Test Cut AT: Mixed Deposits #1, Mostly Brown Silty Sand with Mortar (624.1124)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Creamware