Pearlware plate, rim sherd
- Title:
- Pearlware plate, rim sherd
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Prof. Emeritus Robert Ascher, one of the principal excavators
- Date:
- ca. 1830-1860
- Site:
- Cumberland Island,Camden,Georgia,United States
- Location:
- Cumberland Island,Camden,Georgia,United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- Anthr1983_002_0111_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 983.2.111
- File Name:
- Anthr1983_002_0111_01.jpg
- Culture:
- antebellum
- Style/Period:
- pearlware
- Work Type:
- pearlware
- Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- slavery
georgia
plantations
georgia
georgia
ceramic tableware - Measurement:
- approx 47 x 57 (millimeters)
- Description:
- Rim sherd from a blue feather-edge pearlware plate. This is a later, simplified feather-edge, with the cobalt blue edging brushed around the circumference of the plate (the basic style dates back as early as the 1780s). The width of the rim is 1.5 inches
the sherd is too small to determine the plate diameter precisely but it appears to be a regular dinner plate size. Such a plate may have been passed along from the household to the slaves, particularly if badly chipped or broken, or perhaps when replaced by a newer style. - Bibliography:
- Robert Ascher and Charles H. Fairbanks, "Excavation of a Slave Cabin: Georgia, U.S.A." Historical Archaeology 5 (1971), pp.3-17.
- Archival Collection:
- Georgia Slave Cabin archaeological collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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