Overglaze Enamel Painted Chinese Porcelain Rim Sherd

One unusual Chinese-export porcelain rim sherd from a hollowware vessel with a thick, crackled celadon glaze. Both the exterior and interior surfaces are decorated with black and red overglaze painted decoration and gilding. The sides of the body and the rim are slightly fluted. The sherd has a brown washed rim.

• Object number

  78.9

• Decoration

  Overglaze Enamel Painted

  Gilded

  Colored Glaze

  Brown Washed Rim (Dressed Rim)

• Color

  Black

  Red

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut F: Rubble from Van Vleck House (624.78)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste