Painted Tin-Glazed Earthenware Body/Rim Sherd

One mending body and rim sherd from a buff-bodied tin-glazed earthenware hollowware vessel. The sherd has a white glaze on both surfaces and blue painted geometric crosshatching along the exterior rim. The exterior painted motif may be a chinoiserie design. The interior has no visible decoration. Consists of two sherds that mend but are not mended.

• Object number

  654.8, 654.7

• Date made

  1600 - 1800

• Decoration

  Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Rubble Beneath Cement Floor (624.654)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Buff Paste

  Tin Glazed