Cordoned Rhenish Blue on Gray (Westerwald) Stoneware Chamber Pot

One Westerwald or "Rhenish Blue on Gray" salt glazed stoneware body/rim sherd from a chamber pot. The chamber pot has delicate cordoning around the exterior below a flat everted rim. The cordoning is colored in cobalt blue. The exterior also has additional decoration in blue on the exterior body. The rim measures to 7.5 inches in diameter. The vessel consists of four sherds that mend but are not mended, and one sherd that doesn't mend but is most likely from the same vessel.

• Object number

  844.13, 844.12, 844.20, 844.19, 844.17

• Date made

  1600 - 1775

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

  Cordoned

• Color

  Cobalt Blue

• Animals/objects

  Chamber Pot

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Sanitary

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Deposit Inside Wooden Box (624.844)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Rhenish Blue on Gray (Westerwald)

  Salt-Glazed

• Techniques

  Wheel Thrown