Creamware Chamber Pot

Four base and body sherds from a creamware chamber pot. The footring measures to 5.5 inches in diameter. These ceramic fragments likely composed one of several similar undecorated creamware chamber pots found in a cistern associated with the Pearl Street House, a hotel ca. 1825-1853. Consists of three mended sherds and one sherd that does not mend but is likely from the same vessel.

• Object number

  1114.24, 1114.18, 1114.16, 1135.18

• Date made

  1770 - 1890s

• Dimensions

  Base Diameter 14 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 (624.1114)

• Forms

  Base/Body

  Footring

• Ware types

  Creamware

• Techniques

  Press Molded