Overglaze painted Chinese Export

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Description:

One Chinese export porcelain tea cup (mended from 5 sherds) recovered from HWN II levels 8, 9, and 10. The vessel is decorated in blue under the glaze, brown and red overglaze on exterior, gold and red overglaze on interior rim. The tea cup is one of four reconstructed from fragments retrieved from the privy.



Dated 1745 by David Howard