Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology
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3. Hemispherical bowl. The foot conjectural, decorated in blue on
the exterior with a stylized foliate border made up almost
entirely from groups of straight lines. There is a trellis
border above the missing foot, and the interior is decorated
with a double blue line at the same height, and with a single
line 5/8 in. below the rim. This last is decorated with red,
imitating the red-brown slipped line that frequently occurs on
Chinese export porcelain. Second quarter of 18th century.
T.N. 17; one sherd from T.N. 16.
[Illustration: FIGURE 18.--ENGLISH DELFTWARE, Indian pottery, and
stonewares. One-fourth.]
4. Drug jar. Flat and slightly everted rim, straight body section,
and spreading base; the bottom slightly domed and the glaze
thin. Ornamented in pale blue with groups of horizontal lines
and a body zone decorated with linked ovals created by the
drawing of two overlapping wavy lines. Probably of London
manufacture and of 17th-century date.[154] T.N. 30.
5. Porringer. Slightly everted rim and handle with heart-shaped
aperture; body slightly bulbous and incurving to a straight
foot; the glaze thick and gray. Probably of London
manufacture.[155] Late 17th century to early 18th century. T.N.
23.
6. Shallow ointment pot or jar. Rim flattened, undercut, and
slightly everted; base markedly domed, thick pinkish-white
glaze. Almost certainly of London manufacture and dating from
latter part of 17th century. T.N. 30.
7. Ointment pot. Thin, slightly everted rim over a bulbous body;
the foot slightly spreading beneath it and slightly conical
beneath; the glaze thick and gray. 18th century. T.N. 23.
8. Saucer. Conjectural reconstruction derived from base and rim
sherds. The base thick; the foot solid and only slightly
raised, but the rim thin and with a much more even finish. The
piece has a thick white glaze with a slight pink cast and is
haphazardly splashed with blue. The technique would appear to
be the reverse of the London copies of Nevers faïence whereon
white dots are splashed over a blue ground.[156] This object
appears to be without parallel in published sources, but may
tentatively be given the same dating as the London white on
blue, i.e., about 1680-1690.[157] T.N. 30.
9. Pedestal base from a small salt. Base conical within; glaze
thick and very white; bowl decorated internally with profile
portrait of a cavalier. This extremely unusual item was, by a
remarkable coincidence, paralleled by an identical fragment
found by the writer on the foreshore of the River Thames at
Queenhithe in London. The two are shown together in figure 11.
About 1660-1680.[158] T.N. 23.