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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10. Large dish or charger reconstructed on the basis of base and
rim fragments. Diameter approximately 1 ft. 3 in. The rim turns
gently downward beyond the wide marly, and the foot is squat
and slightly spread. The glaze is thick and white, and the rim
decoration takes the form of broad rings of blue enclosing a
marly zone ornamented with an alternating lozenge and diamond
motif created from two rows of interlocking arcs, the upper
painted in orange and the lower in blue. The decoration of the
center of the dish is uncertain, but was painted in the same
two colors, perhaps in a stylized pomegranate design. Such
dishes are frequently decorated on the rim edges with dashes
of blue that give them the name "blue dash chargers,"[159]
but there is sufficient glaze surviving on this example to
indicate that there was no such ornament. Another somewhat
unusual feature is that the back of the dish is tin-glazed;
the majority of such dishes were coated on the reverse with a
thin yellow or yellowish-green lead glaze. Such dishes were
frequently used as wall or dresser ornaments and not for use at
table; consequently, the footrings are generally pierced for
suspension. No suspension holes occur on the small sections of
the footring that survive on this example. The dish is believed
to be of London manufacture on the evidence of wasters found in
the Borough of Southwark,[160] London (see fig. 10), though the
style is clearly of Dutch origin.[161] About 1670-1690. T.N.
30.[162]
11. Rim fragment from plate. The glaze slightly pink, narrow marly
decorated with alternating lozenge and diamond motif in light
blue (see no. 10) bordered by a single and double line of the
same color. At least two concentric circles adorned the floor
of the plate, but no evidence of the central design survives.
Early 18th century. T.N. 23.
12. Pedestal foot and base of salt or cup. The foot conical and
shelved internally; the bowl flat-based and with the rolled
terminal of a small handle at one side; the glaze somewhat
gray. The foot decorated with three somewhat irregularly drawn
rings in light blue; the bowl ornamented with rudimentary
floral devices; and the handle terminal decorated with two
horizontal bars of dark blue, perhaps beneath a vertical,
stalked flower. Late 17th century(?). T.N. 24.
INDIAN POTTERY
13. Bowl with flattened and slightly everted rim.
Colono-Indian[163] pottery, pebble-or stick-burnished, with
pink surface; extensive tool marks on the exterior; the ware
flecked with red ocher and few traces of shell. T.N. 23, T.N.
24.[164]