Engine-Turned Checkerboard Dipped Pearlware Bowl Rim Sherd

One dipped (annular) pearlware rim sherd from a common-shape bowl with a solid speckled blue and dark blue colored slip field on the exterior. Above the slip field, the sherd has an engine-turned checkerboard decoration in white and black. The rim measures to approximately 5.5 inches in diameter. There is a similar but unmending sherd in Test Cut D.

• Object number

  791.9

• Date made

  1775 - 1860

• Decoration

  Dipped

  Engine-Turned

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

• Patterns

  Banded

  Checkerboard

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Deposit Below Horizontal Wooden Boards (624.791)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Pearlware

• Techniques

  Press Molded