Printed Whiteware Body Sherd

A blue transfer-printed body sherd from a hollowware vessel. The exterior decoration uses the popular Willow pattern, featuring a weeping willow and Chinese-style junk boat.

• Object number

  1064.08, 1064.36

• Date made

  1815 - 1880

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Line Engraved

  Chinese

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tea/Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 9, Test Cut AR, Mid-19th-Century Privy Fill, Strata XI (544.1064)

• Forms

  Body

• Ware types

  Whiteware

• Techniques

  Press Molded