Tortoiseshell Body Sherd

One small curved tortoiseshell refined earthenware body sherd from an indeterminate vessel with brown mottled decoration exterior surface and no visible decoration on the interior. The mottled decoration appears to be small spots instead of a true clouded/tortoiseshell pattern.

• Object number

  604.7

• Date made

  1749 - 1780

• Decoration

  Mottled Glaze

• Color

  Brown

• Animals/objects

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Tortoiseshell