Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Plate Body Sherd

Chinese-export porcelain body sherd with blue underglaze painted decoration on both the interior and exterior surfaces. The sherd is a fragment from the interface of the marley and the cavetto of a deep plate or soup plate. 

• Object number

  558.15

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

• Techniques

  Press Molded