Tea Bowl

Ceramic

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Stenton

The image shows a broken blue and white porcelain bowl.

The image shows a broken blue and white porcelain bowl.

Name/Title

Tea Bowl

Entry/Object ID

A1982.14.85

Description

Bowl or cup having a conical body standing on a high foot ring, with an iron brown wash on the rim and painted in underglaze blue with a line at the inner and outer rim, floral sprays on the exterior, a line at the foot, and a floral spray in a circle in the center of the well. Similar bowls were recovered from the wreck of the British East Indiaman Sussex, which sank on Bassas da India, a French atoll in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique (G. Bousquet, “The Discovery of an English East Indiaman at Bassas da India, a French Atoll in the Indian Ocean: the Sussex (1738)”, in Fenwick and Redknap, Ships, Cargoes, and the East India Trade (Nautical Archaeological Society, 1990), p. 85).

Collection

Ceramics

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1700 - circa 1740

Time Period

18th Century

Place

City

Jingdezhen

Location

China

Region

East Asia

Continent

Asia

Dimensions

Height

2 in

Diameter

4 in

Material

Hard Paste Porcelain

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Location

Stenton

City

Philadelphia

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Related Events

Event

1982 Archeological Excavation