Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Body Sherds

Three Chinese-export porcelain body sherds with red, tan and white overglaze enamel painted floral decoration on the exterior. There is no visible decoration on the interior. Two sherds mend but are not mended, and one sherd does not mend but is most likely from the same vessel. This vessel is cross-mended between contexts.

• Object number

  39.122, 39.264, 118.38

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

• Color

  Red

  White

  Brown

  Black

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Floral

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

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

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste