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Object Number 973-29-10/52199
Display Title China and earthenware sherds
Descriptions
Object Description China and earthenware sherds
Inventory Description Ceramic, including plain body sherds of redware, creamware, and pearlware, a whiteware base, and an ironstone mug rim with gilded banding at rim
Classification
  • Base
  • Body
  • Rim
Department Archaeological
Date 18th century - 19th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Essex County / Ipswich / Potato field Site
Dimensions Overall (Measurement of rim fragment): 4.4 × 4 × 0.4 cm (1 3/4 × 1 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity 7
Label on object 973-29-10/52199; 10/52199
Provenance
Provenance Peabody Museum Expedition (1973)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Undecorated ironstone rim sherd; undecorated ironstone body sherds; undecorated pearlware base sherd; undecorated pearlware body sherds; undecorated creamware body sherd; undecorated whiteware body sherds; buff-bodied stoneware body sherd, one side white-glazed, one side molded and buff-glazed
2016.29.677 Undecorated ironstone rim sherd; undecorated ironstone body sherds; undecorated pearlware base sherd; undecorated pearlware body sherds; undecorated creamware body sherd; undecorated whiteware body sherds; buff-bodied stoneware body sherd, one side white-glazed, one side molded and buff-glazed
Rim
Base
Body
Harvard Yard
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2016.29.357 Undecorated creamware body sherd; undecorated pearlware body sherds; undecorated pearlware base sherds, three sherds crossmend; undecorated whiteware body sherd; undecorated ironstone rim sherds, two sherds crossmend
Body
Base
Rim
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Base
Harvard Yard
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2008.22.130 Fifteen body sherds of pearlware; two body sherds of molded pearlware; two body sherds of creamware; two body sherds of whiteware; two body sherds of brown and green hand painted whiteware; one rim sherd of brown hand painted whiteware; one body sherd of tin glazed earthenware
Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
One pearlware rim sherd; one unidentified burned refined earthenware rim sherd; one polychrome hand painted and gilded whiteware rim sherd; one whiteware base sherd; five whiteware body sherds; one white salt glaze stoneware body sherd
2008.22.185 One pearlware rim sherd; one unidentified burned refined earthenware rim sherd; one polychrome hand painted and gilded whiteware rim sherd; one whiteware base sherd; five whiteware body sherds; one white salt glaze stoneware body sherd
Base
Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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2007.20.1182 Ceramic, earthenware, whiteware (1), pearlware (3), body sherds; creamware (2), rim sherds
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
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2007.20.146 Ceramic, refined earthenware, various patterns and wares, rim and body sherds
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
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2007.20.479 Ceramic, refined earthenware, whiteware body and rim sherds, pearlware body sherd, creamware body sherd
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
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Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
Ceramic, earthenware, pearlware (3), creamware (2), whiteware (2), rim and body sherds
2007.20.454 Ceramic, earthenware, pearlware (3), creamware (2), whiteware (2), rim and body sherds
Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
China sherds, including fragments of plates and handle. some "flow blue"(?)
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Body
Handle
Base
Rim
Ipswich