Figure 11 



1. Group of cup and saucer fragments, Chinese por- 

 celain. All fragments appear to be from the same 

 set. Stylized lotus design in underglaze blue. In- 

 terior of cup is decorated with an unidentifiable 

 flower on the bottom surrounded by a single ring 

 and with another ring slightly lielow the lip. 18th 

 century. E3. K2. D1, D2. Reconstructed drawing, 

 fig. 25, no. 7. 



2. Saucer, Chinese porcelain. Has small, slightly 

 incurving footring; decoration as in no. 1. 18th 

 century. E3, K2. Reconstructed drawing, fig. 25, 

 no. 8. 



3. Saucer, Chinese porcelain. Slightly flaring rim; 

 small footring; elaborate floral decoration of 

 medium quality in underglaze blue. 18th century 

 (?). C2, L2. Reconstructed drawing, fig. 25. no. 

 10. 



4. Saucer, Chinese porcelain. Slightly flaring rim and 

 small footring as in no. 3: loose floral decoration 

 and paneled scenes in underglaze blue. E2 and 

 surface. Reconstructed drawing, fig. 25, no. 11. 

 The treatment of the flowers and the use of divid- 

 ing panels are paralleled in a Chinese porcelain 

 saucer found in exca\ations at St. Benedict's Gate, 

 Norwich, England, where it was attriljuted to the 

 period 1650-1700.^'° 



5. Cup, Chinese porcelain. Small cylindrical; iron 

 oxide on rim; decoration in underglaze blue with 

 deep blue band lielow rim and elaborate floral 

 ornament in pale blue on the body. Second half 

 of 18th century. Ol. 



6. Cup handle, Chinese porcelain. Oval-sectioned; 

 spinal floral decoration in underglaze blue. Second 

 half of 18th century. J2, P3. These locations pro- 

 vide a good example of the degree of scattering. 



7. Cup, Chinese porcelain. Small, cylindrical, irady 

 very white; decoration in underglaze blue. The 

 hatched zone below the rim may be compared to 

 a similar device surrounding the central ornament 

 in fig. 10, no. 1. Second half of 18th century. Bl. 

 Dating for nos. 5^7 is based on the fact that cylin- 

 drical coffee cups were made in China to conform 

 to a European fashion not appearing before second 

 half of the 18th century. It will be noticed that 

 two of the pieces come from layer 1, and therefore 

 need not be as early as the finds recoxered from 

 the sealed strata of the pit. 



8. Saucer, Chinese porcelain. Gently curving wall; 

 small footring; decoration in underglaze blue with 



a butterfly-and-lotus motif as the central ornament. 

 The open-weave borders may be compared to the 

 less carefully executed varieties that appear on the 

 soup plate in fig. 10, no. 5, and to the smaller ex- 

 ample in fig. 10, no. 9. E3, K3. Reconstructed 

 drawing, fig. 25, no. 9. A very close parallel, illus- 

 trated by Jenyns,^' is stated to have been in the 

 famous collection, now in Dresden, that was formed 

 by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and 

 Elector of Sa.xony. The collection was built up 

 principally during the short period from 1694 to 

 1705. The piece comes from one of the Ching-te 

 Chen factories, and there is little doubt that the 

 Rcsewell example comes from the same source, 

 though perhaps a little later. 



9. Plate or shallow bowl, Chinese porcelain. Wall 

 markedly curved; small footring orange at the bot- 

 tom; rim with iron oxide beneath gilding. The 

 body of this fine quality piece is decorated on the 

 wall with floral motifs in pale blue underglaze, but 

 most of the ornamentation is created in over- 

 glaze enamels. The zone below the rim is decorated 

 in red with scrolls and petals filled with gold and 

 with leaves in green outlined in black. Traces of 

 the latter technique are visible in the center of the 

 piece, which is framed in a ring of /(/-/ heads out- 

 lined in red and filled with gold. This border 

 motif is less common than the simpler spearhead 

 form seen on so much overglaze-decorated Chinese 

 export porcelain.'- Third quarter of 18th century. 

 E3, F2, J2, and smface. Reconstructed drawing, 

 fig. 25, no. 4. 



10. \'ase or bottle fragments, Chinese porcelain. 

 Interior markedly ribbed; exterior decorated in 

 underglaze blue; design a typical boat with lake 

 and willow motif from which the willow pattern 

 was later derived. 18th century. G2, M2. 



11. Teapot stand(?), Chinese porcelain. Corner 

 sherd only. Unglazed on the back; tile slightly 

 raised within a collar whose upper edge shows traces 

 of iron oxide. Decoration in underglaze blue; de- 

 sign of individual lotus blossoms within the lattice 

 border — seen also in fig. 10, nos. 5, 9, and fig. 11, 



=" Sec J. G. Hurst and J. Golson. "Excavations at .St. Bene- 

 dict's Gates, Norwich, 1951 and 1953," J^orjolk Archaeology, 

 vol. 31, pt. 1, 1955, p. 85, pi. 156. 



■" Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1953, pi. 12, 

 fig. 1. 



'- John G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, Cambridge, Harvard 

 University Press, 1956, p. 58. 



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