Ceramics
The most abundant material found in the yard, ceramics found their way into student life through plates, pipe stems, mugs, decorative vessels, and more.
Porcelain sherd
Blue and white, flat, triangular piece of Chinese porcelain. Slightly curved on the tip opposite of the design. Thickness increases towards this tip.
Bellarmine (Bartmann) Sherd
The eye stamped into this sherd makes it easily recognizable as a shard of Bellarmine, a name which alludes the Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621), a Cardinal allegedly hated by protestant potters. Bellarmine-style stoneware has been dated as far back as…
Scratch Blue Stoneware
Journal Entry: April 1768*
Mother and Father just paid a visit. Boring, as usual. Before they left for home Mother left me a gift: a tea set. As if I needed another one! Mother had insisted on giving me a set when I first left to come to the…
Tin Glazed Earthenware Sherds
Joseph Browne, Harvard Class of 1666
These fragments are from two plates that I broke in 1664 during my sophomore year at the College. My friends and I may have had too much rum, and our rowdiness got rather out of hand. We thought it would be…
