Painted Salt-Glazed Stoneware Bowl Body/Rim Sherd

One very vitrified stoneware body and rim sherd from a shallow serving bowl or dish. The vessel is most likely salt glazed but could also possibly be glazed with salt-like impurities appearing from the body. The body color appears to be varying degrees of gray and brown in color. The bowl has a flat everted rim that measures to 12 inches in diameter and 0.84 inches in width. There are traces of cobalt blue decoration on the interior.

• Object number

  791.15

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 12 inches

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Cobalt Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

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

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Salt-Glazed