Powdered and Painted Tin-Glazed Bowl Body/Rim Sherd

Seventeen rim and body sherds from a buff bodied tin-glazed earthenware bowl (likely a punch bowl) with a thick white glaze on both surfaces. The exterior is powdered with manganese (purple) speckles beneath a blue and dark blue painted decoration. The blue decoration on the exterior is part of a large fish motif with two distinct fish represented. Consists of mended sherds and individual sherds grouped as follows: five mended sherds and two mended sherds that could all be mended together but have not been; four mended sherds and one sherd that mends but has not been mended; two mended sherds; another two mended sherds; and one single sherd. 

• Object number

  958.82, 958.83, 958.84, 958.87, 958.112, 958.75, 958.70, 958.72, 958.73, 958.90, 958.93, 958.111, 958.89, 958.95, 958.85, 958.88, 958.91

• Date made

  1738 - 1764

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 12.0 inches

• Decoration

  Powdered

  Painted

• Color

  Purple

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Bowl

  Bowl, Punch

• Patterns

  Other (see comments)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Alcohol-Related

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 13, Test Cut AM, Stratum 1, Level a (624.958)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

  Body

• Ware types

  Tin-Glazed

  Buff Paste