Printed "Nanking" Style Soft Paste Porcelain Saucer

Blue transfer printed soft-paste porcelain (or bone china) saucer sherd with gilded rim. Nanking-like border pattern. The two sherds from context 70 (SC 6A) and 57 (SC 6A) mend while one sherd from context 72 (SC 3A) does not, but they are all likely from the same saucer.

• Object number

  CV-134: 57, 70, 72

• Date made

  1850 - present

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 14 cm

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Saucer

• Patterns

  Nanking

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Transect 3, SC 6A: Possible Buried A Horizon (9531.70)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Soft Paste