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Four pearlware sherds, one with blue decoration, and one white salt-glazed stoneware sherd
Four pearlware sherds, one with blue decoration, and one white salt-glazed stoneware sherd
Object Number 2011.14.3625
Display Title Four pearlware sherds, one with blue decoration, and one white salt-glazed stoneware sherd
Descriptions
Inventory Description Four pearlware sherds, one with blue decoration, and one white salt-glazed stoneware sherd
Classification
  • Sherd
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite H903 Level 7-9
Materials Earthenware Stoneware
Dimensions Overall (Measurements of One): 1.8 × 1.9 × 0.4 cm (11/16 × 3/4 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity 5

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Rim
Base
Body
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Base
Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Sherd
Harvard Yard
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Base
Body
Harvard Yard
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2009.9.2056 Ceramic sherds, one ironstone with blue transfer print and one grey, salt glazed stoneware with blue glaze on the exterior
Porcelain
Harvard Yard
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2016.29.1205 White salt glazed stoneware rim sherd with possible blue decoration; white salt glazed stoneware body sherd with incised line
Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Rim
Body
Harvard Yard
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Sherd
Harvard Yard
Pearlware sherd with blue-on-white decoration on one side
2011.14.599 Pearlware sherd with blue-on-white decoration on one side
Sherd
Harvard Yard
Miscellaneous refined white earthenware sherds with blue-on-white decorations, including one tin-glazed earthenware sherd and at least two pearlware sherds
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Sherd
Harvard Yard
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2016.29.145 Undecorated pearlware body sherd; undecorated body sherd; blue hand painted whiteware body sherd; blue hand painted tin glazed earthenware body sherd; undecorated tin glazed earthenware body sherd; brown on white Bristol glazed stoneware body sherd
Body
Harvard Yard