Bowl

Production date
Pre 1790
Pre 1790
Country
Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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Description
Incomplete ceramic bowl (fragment part 2). Transferware printed blue & white; diamond diaper band around the inner rim and a central medallion depicting a lamb at rest. European feature motif, single fisherman scene, on the outer body.
Production date
Pre 1790
Pre 1790
Measurements
O/dia 85, I/dia 79, Ht to rim 50
Media/Materials description
Ceramic
History and use
In 1790 HMS Pandora sailed from England in pursuit of the HMS Bounty and its mutineers. The Pandora was wrecked in 1791 on its return voyage while attempting to negotiate the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Queensland Museum archaeological expeditions between 1983 and 1999 recovered many artefacts.
Ceramic bowl in two parts. Transferware printed blue & white; diamond diaper band around the inner rim and a central medallion depicting a lamb at rest. European feature motif, single fisherman scene, on the outer body. Found in the area of the Warrant officers' cabins.

HMS Pandora
Registration number
MA8150.1

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