Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Saucer

Four mendable base/body/rim sherds from a small Chinese-export porcelain saucer. The saucer is decorated with blue underglaze painted decoration on the interior. Along the interior rim and along the face of the central motif, there is a painted trellis in blue decoration. The central motif is decorated with a Pavilion Landscape motif, depicting some type of dwelling or structure beside large towering trees. The base has a very small rounded wedge footring that is slightly yellowed. The saucer consists of two sherds that are mended and two sherds that mend but are not mended/glued. This vessel is cross-mended between contexts.

• Object number

  39.129, 39.100, 118.17, 118.20

• Date made

  1710 - 1797

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Saucer

• Patterns

  Trellis in Blue

  Pavilion Landscape

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese