Printed Whiteware Body Sherd

A blue transfer printed whiteware sherd from a straight-sided hollowware vessel, likely a pitcher. Commonly called "gothic," these flat paneled designs for hexagonal or octagonal vessels proliferated throughout the mid-nineteenth century. The vessel uses both exterior and interior decoration. The central motif uses Romantic imagery, wherein a group of observers views a bucolic landscape and stylized buildings from atop a cliff. A geometric border with lines appears on the interior and exterior rim.

• Object number

  1060.35, 1060.40

• Date made

  1840 - 1870

• Decoration

  Printed

  Paneled

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Line Engraved

  Romantic

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tea/Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 9, Test Cut AR, Mid-19th-Century Privy Fill, Strata XI (544.1060)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Whiteware

• Techniques

  Press Molded