Painted Salt-Glazed Stoneware Body Sherd

One very vitrified stoneware body sherd, most likely from a shallow serving bowl or dish. The vessel appears salt glazed but could also possibly be glazed with salt-like impurities appearing from the body. The body color is varying degrees of gray and brown in color. The interior is decorated with a large and neatly executed cobalt blue swirl. The exterior appears dry-bodied or salt glazed with obvious impurities or damage from the firing process. Possibly a Westerwald/Rhenish stoneware.

• Object number

  47.56

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Cobalt Blue

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Stoneware

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Salt-Glazed