Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One very small rim sherd from a Chinese-export porcelain teacup, saucer or bowl with intricately painted red enamel decoration. The interior is lined with what appears to be fish roe or a fish roe-variant. The exterior has no visible decoration.

• Object number

  39.256

• Date made

  Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Red

• Animals/objects

  Teaware, General

• Patterns

  Fish Roe

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded