Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One thin Chinese-export porcelain rim sherd with a blue underglaze painted and red overglaze enamel painted decoration on the interior. There is no visible decoration on the exterior. The red overglaze decoration has mostly worn away. The sherd may have been gilded as well, but the gilding is not extant. The sherd is too small to determine a function or pattern, although the rim possibly has a geometric border.

• Object number

  39.191

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

  Red

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste