Painted Tin-Glazed Earthenware Body/Rim Sherd

One thin, straight-sided rim/body sherd from a buff-bodied tin glazed hollowware vessel. The sherd has white glaze with painted blue decoration on the exterior and just white glaze on the interior. The exterior is decorated with rows of lines around the body beneath the rim, with a possible floral motif painted below. The body is lightly burned and discolored.

• Object number

  172.5

• 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, Sub-Landfill: River Bottom Silt Deposit (624.172)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Buff Paste

  Tin Glazed

• Techniques

  Burned