Underglaze Painted Chinese Porcelain Body Sherds

Two Chinese-export porcelain body sherds from an indeterminate hollowware vessel. The sherds have blue underglaze painted decoration on the exterior surface in a floral pattern and no visible decoration on the opposite surface. The sherds mend between contexts but are not glued.

• Object number

  1012.78, 954.227

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Lot 15, Test Cut S, Wooden Box: Disturbed Soil within Wooden Box (624.1012)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Chinese

  Porcelain, Hard Paste