Underglaze Painted Floral Chinese Porcelain Lid

Two mending Chinese porcelain body and rim sherds from a lid. The lid is possibly from a teapot or sugar bowl. The exterior is decorated with a stylized floral pattern with diagonal hashmarks around the rim. The interior has a single blue line along the edge of the rim and an additional blue line further down towards the center of the interior of the lid. The sherds mend but are not mended/glued.

• Object number

  204.1

• Dimensions

  Rim Diameter 4 inches

• Decoration

  Painted, Underglaze

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Lid

• Patterns

  Floral

  Line(s)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Material

  Porcelain

• Context

  Section B, Test Trench 15 (TT15) East Side (18 Feet from South End of Trench) (WSPPF1.204)

• Forms

  Body/Rim

• Ware types

  Porcelain, Hard Paste

  Chinese