Printed Whiteware Rim Sherd

A red transfer printed whiteware rim sherd from a flatware vessel. The border features a design likely created by William Adams IV & Sons of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire between 1829 and 1861. Their "Cyrene" series featured romantic landscapes that reflected a growing interest in the North African Greek colony of Cyrenaica. This pattern was also used by J & T. Lockett and George Jones following William Adams IV & Sons' 1861 bankruptcy sale.

• Object number

  622.07

• Date made

  1829 - 1861

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Red/Pink

• Animals/objects

  Flatware

• Patterns

  Line Engraved

  Romantic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 9, Test Cut AO, Early-20th-Century Fill, Strata III (544.622)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Whiteware

• Techniques

  Press Molded