Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One very small Chinese export porcelain rim sherd with an underglaze blue painted decoration along the interior. Although the sherd is too small to determine the pattern, the interior rim is painted with diagonal lines with an unknown motif below. The sherd may possibly be from a saucer, teacup or similar type of vessel.

• Object number

  776.4

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Deposit Below Horizontal Wooden Boards (624.776)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese

• Techniques

  Press Molded