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Hand-painted pearlware vessel, rim-sherd

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United State, Antebellum, Slavery

Description

Small rim-sherd from a hand-painted pearlware vessel, possibly a bowl. Cobalt-blue underglaze painting includes a band around the rim, and other design elements (possibly floral). Such bowls were inspired by Chinese porcelain rice bowls, and probably had similar usage in a southern plantation context. Whether given to slaves, whole or damaged, or removed from the household surreptitiously, cannot be known from this fragment.
Format:
16 X 20mm Ceramic Pearlware
Created Date:
Circa 1830 1850
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From Collection

SSDPLACornell

Record Contributed By

Cornell University

Record Harvested From

ARTstor

Keywords

  1. Ceramic Tableware
  2. Georgia
  3. History
  4. Plantations
  5. Slaver
  6. Slavery

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