Shell-Edge Refined Earthenware Rim Sherd

One small refined earthenware rim sherd with green shell edge decoration along the edge of the rim. The sherd is very small and might be pearlware or whiteware. Although it is too small to definitively determine, the rim sherd is likely from a plate, platter or similar tableware vessel.

• Object number

  1194.2

• Date made

  1775 - 1860s

• Decoration

  Molded Rim

  Painted

• Color

  Green

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Patterns

  Shell-Edge Rim

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Unidentified Refined Earthenware

• Techniques

  Press Molded