Painted Tin-Glazed Earthenware Body Sherds

Three buff-bodied tin-glazed earthenware body sherds from an unknown vessel type with blue painted decoration over a white glaze. The sherds have a white tin glaze on both surfaces but the blue painted decoration is only on one surface. Some sherds are missing glaze on their opposite surfaces. The sherds do not mend and more than one vessel is represented.

• Object number

  208.46, 208.27, 208.18

• Date made

  1600 - 1800

• Decoration

  Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Unknown

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut F, River Bottom Silt: Dark Gray Clayey Silt (624.208)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Buff Paste

  Tin Glazed