Soft Paste Porcelain Body Sherds

Five large fragments of heavily encrusted and burned European or American soft paste porcelain. The fragments consist of multiple body sherds, stacked and melted onto one another. The sherds are encrusted with what appears to be mortar, sand, and concrete. Some possibly have damaged painted decoration or glazes.

• Object number

  35.102, 35.15, 35.14, 35.64, 35.77

• Date made

  1740

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Unknown

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Rubble Beneath Cement Floor (624.35)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Soft Paste

  European/American

• Techniques

  Burned