Powdered and Painted Tin-Glazed Bowl Body/Rim Sherd

Four mendable rim and body sherds from a buff bodied tin glazed earthenware bowl with a thick white glaze on both surfaces. The exterior is powdered with manganese (purple) speckles beneath an indeterminate blue and dark blue painted decoration. The blue decoration on the exterior may be part of a large fish motif. The exterior body of the bowl is stained with rust from deposition. Consists of three mended sherds and one sherd that mends but is not mended to the vessel.

• Object number

  39.139, 39.306, 39.139, 39.131

• Date made

  1738 - 1764

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 6.0 inches

• Decoration

  Powdered

  Painted

• Color

  Purple

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

• Patterns

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Possible Redeposited Domestic Midden, South Portion (624.39)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Tin-Glazed

  Buff Paste