Gilded European Soft Paste Porcelain Rim Sherds

Seven rim sherds from a European or American soft paste porcelain vessel. The interior is decorated with a thick gilded band along the rim with a thinner gold band beneath it. The gilding is painted over either an underglaze painted or overglaze enamel painted solid blue coloring. The sherds are heavily burnt and encrusted, so the type of painted decoration cannot be determined. Some sherds are more heavily burned than others. Consists of two sets of two mended sherds, and three sherds that do not mend. The sherds are likely all from the same vessel.

• Object number

  35.16, 35.49, 35.127, 35.108, 35.133, 35.139

• Decoration

  Gilded

  Painted

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Rubble Beneath Cement Floor (624.35)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  European/American

  Porcelain, Soft Paste

• Techniques

  Burned