Porcelain dish fragments
This dish was made in China around 1590-1620 and is decorated with a ‘bird on the rocks’ scene. It was discovered by archaeologists in a rubbish pit in Exeter dating from around 1680.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2272
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryChinese porcelain
- Common Name
- porcelain dish fragments
- Simple Name
- vessel (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Date
- 1680
