Painted Dutch Majolica Body/Rim Sherd

One large Dutch majolica body and rim sherd with a light buff body and a colorless lead glaze on its exterior surface. The interior is coated with a white tin glaze with cobalt (blue) painted decoration. The body is generally straight-sided and there are visible turn rings on the exterior, visible through a colorless lead glaze. The tin-glazed interior extends over the top of the everted rim. The interior is decorated with medium and light blue painted streaky horizontal lines and a larger cable-like decoration. The sherd is possibly from a hollowware vessel and is similar to an ointment pot shape but the rim diameter is rather large.

• Object number

  148.1

• Date made

  1625 - 1675

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 9.0 inches

• Decoration

  Painted

  Lead Glazed

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Other

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut F, Landfill: Light Brown Coarse Sand with Shell (624.148)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Majolica, Dutch

  Buff Paste