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Blue and white porcelain sherds, including body and base fragments
Blue and white porcelain sherds, including body and base fragments
Object Number 973-27-10/52344
Display Title Blue and white porcelain sherds, including body and base fragments
Descriptions
Object Description Blue and white porcelain sherds, incl. body and base fragments
Inventory Description Ceramic, rim and body sherds of blue hand painted porcelain, most Chinese, one European, and one piece of blue decorated whiteware
Classification
  • Lid
  • Rim
  • Body
Department Archaeological
Date 18th century - 19th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite Pusey Library Site
Additional Geographic Terms Harvard University
Materials Porcelain , Whiteware
Dimensions Overall: 4.9 × 2.5 × 0.2 cm (1 15/16 × 1 × 1/16 in.)
Quantity 11
Label on object 973-27-10/52344; 10/52344
Provenance
Provenance Dr. William Bond (1973)

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2008.22.99 One molded pearlware rim sherd; one pearlware rim sherd; two blue hand painted whiteware body sherds; one green and brown handpainted whiteware body sherd; one blue transfer printed whiteware body sherd; one gold hand painted overglaze porcelain sherd, appears to be the ear of an animal figurine
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
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Lid
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Body
Base
Rim
Partial Vessel
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Base
Harvard Yard
Two undecorated porcelain body sherds; two undecorated porcelain rim sherds; one blue hand painted porcelain body sherd; one blue hand painted porcelain rim sherd
2008.22.397 Two undecorated porcelain body sherds; two undecorated porcelain rim sherds; one blue hand painted porcelain body sherd; one blue hand painted porcelain rim sherd
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
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Sherd
Plate
Cup
House Site; 36-ly-101
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2016.29.372 Blue on white hand painted porcelain vessel body fragments, white paste; Blue on white transferprinted whiteware vessel body fragment, white paste
Body
Harvard Yard
Four blue hand painted porcelain rim sherds, two with brown painted rim; five blue hand painted porcelain body sherds; one undecorated porcelain body sherd
2008.22.135 Four blue hand painted porcelain rim sherds, two with brown painted rim; five blue hand painted porcelain body sherds; one undecorated porcelain body sherd
Body
Rim
Harvard Yard
Image Not Available for Blue on white handpainted chinese trade porcelain, white paste; blue on white transferprinted whiteware vessel body fragment, white paste
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Body
Harvard Yard
Blue hand painted porcelain base sherd
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Base
Harvard Yard
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Saucer
Sherd
Harvard Yard