Name/Title
Waste BowlEntry/Object ID
A1982.14.42Description
Shallow, hemispherical bowl standing on a foot ring, decorated with scratch blue with a chevron band at the outer rim and a flower on the side.
Scratch blue decoration was popular from the mid-1740s through the 1770s. The decoration was primarily done by women, as described by ceramics historian Simeon Shaw; “ The Flowerers now scratched the jugs and tea ware, with a sharp pointed nail, and filled the interstices with ground zaffre, in rude imitation of the unmeaning scenery on foreign porcelain; and in this art women were instructed, as a constant demand was made on the men for the plastic branches.” (Simeon Shaw, The History of the Staffordshire Potteries (1829), 177).
Bowls of this size served many functions, including as a waste bowl to hold the dregs of tea, as an individual punch bowl, or any other purpose.Collection
CeramicsMade/Created
Date made
circa 1745 - circa 1765Time Period
18th CenturyPlace
County
StaffordshireCountry
EnglandRegion
Great Britain, British Isles, Western EuropeContinent
EuropeDimensions
Height
2 inDiameter
4-1/4 inMaterial
Salt-glazed StonewareRelationships
Related Places
Place
Location
StentonCity
PhiladelphiaState/Province
PennsylvaniaCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaRelated Events
Event
1982 Archeological Excavation
