Creamware Chamber Pot

Six base, body and handle sherds from a large creamware chamber pot. The base measures to over 6 inches in diameter, and part of its large and distinctive handle remains attached to the mended body sherds. These ceramic fragments composed one of several similar undecorated creamware chamber pots found in a cistern associated with the Pearl Street House, a hotel ca. 1825-1853.

• Object number

  1102.4, 1102.8, 1102.11, 1102.15, 1102.25, 1102.39

• Date made

  1770 - 1890s

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 15.5 cm

• Animals/objects

  Chamber Pot

• Category

  Sanitary

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 26*, Test Cut AP, Cistern Deposit: Dark Gray-Brown Silty Sand in Feature (624.1102)

• Forms

  Base/Body/Handle

  Footring

• Ware types

  Creamware

• Techniques

  Press Molded