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Description: | A Post Medieval pottery base sherd from a Delft ware coffee cup (1650-1750 AD). The sherd has a thick white tin glaze on both the interior and exterior surfaces. The fabric has sparse quartz tempering and is a pale buff-pink colour from the biscuit firing. The interior of the base has been decorated with the bust of a Turk, facing left, picked out in a blue-green slip. The brush lines of the slip are fairly thick, and some areas have been filled in solidly with colour. The caricature of the man is fairly rough, indicative of the fact that in painting the slip on top of the opaque white tin-glaze, the artist has only one chance and cannot correct mistakes in the design. On the exterior of the base, around 30 per cent of a projecting foot remains. This foot would have been approximately 42.5mm in diameter. The foot has been decorated with a painted line of blue slip at the lowest edge. Projecting from the centre of the base of the cup, within the limits of the foot is a small pointed knop where the vessel has been removed from the wheel. Another painted line of blue-green slip has been added in the junction of the foot and the base of the cup. A further pair of blue lines has been has been painted around the circumference of the cup some 8.0mm further up.Dimensions: diameter: 60.77mm; weight: 39.35g.Identification by Roy Stephenson, Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist, Museum of London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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