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Porcelain Marbles

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Federal Reserve Site (18BC27)
Unglazed porcelain marble with barely visible painted floral motif in blue and green. Similar marbles have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1910 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990) - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble with barely visible painted floral motif in blue and green. Similar marbles have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1910 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990) - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s eye and repeating leaf pattern motif around the circumference. Similar marbles have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1860 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990). The painted motif is almost entirely worn off of this porcelain marble - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s eye and repeating leaf pattern motif around the circumference. Similar marbles have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1860 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990). The painted motif is almost entirely worn off of this porcelain marble - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in red and green. This decorative motif was common from c.1850 to 1910 - click image to see larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in red and green. This decorative motif was common from c.1850 to 1910 - click image to see larger view.
Unglazed porcelain marble with barely visible
painted floral motif in blue and green. Similar
marbles have been found in archaeological
contexts dating c. 1850- 1910 (Carskadden
and Gartley 1990).  		Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s
eye and repeating leaf pattern motif around
the circumference. Similar marbles have been
found in archaeological contexts dating
c. 1850-1860 (Carskadden and Gartley
1990). The painted motif is almost entirely
worn off of this porcelain marble. 		Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with
intersecting sets of parallel lines in red and
green. This decorative motif was common
from c.1850 to 1910.

Levering Coffee House (18BC51)

18BC66 Shot Tower Metro Station
Unglazed porcelain marble with a spray of leaves in combination with parallel lines. This decorative motif occurs throughout period c. 1850-1910 , but the color palette of blue, dark green and red, as well as the fact that it is unglazed, suggests that this marble dates to the 1850s-1860s (Carskadden and Gartley 1990:67) - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble with a spray of leaves in combination with parallel lines. This decorative motif occurs throughout period c. 1850-1910 , but the color palette of blue, dark green and red, as well as the fact that it is unglazed, suggests that this marble dates to the 1850s-1860s (Carskadden and Gartley 1990:67) - Click images for larger view. Bull’s eye porcelain marble (17.1 mm diameter). Lot 211-68. 18BC66 Plaid red and green porcelain marble (16.7 mm diameter). Lot 210-108. 18BC66
Unglazed porcelain marble with a spray of
leaves in combination with parallel lines. This
decorative motif occurs throughout period
c. 1850-1910 , but the color palette of blue,
dark green and red, as well as the fact that it
is unglazed, suggests that this marble dates
to the 1850s-1860s (Carskadden and
Gartley 1990:67).		 Bull’s eye porcelain marble (17.1 mm
diameter). Lot 211-68.

Plaid red and green porcelain marble
(16.7 mm diameter). Lot 210-108.

Privy 19A01 (18BC80)

Queenstown Courthouse (18QU124)
Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s eye motif. Marbles with this type of bull’s eye with a repeating leaf pattern around the circumference have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1860 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990) - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s eye motif. Marbles with this type of bull’s eye with a repeating leaf pattern around the circumference have been found in archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1860 (Carskadden and Gartley 1990) - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in orange and green.This decorative motif was common from c.1850 to 1910 - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in orange and green.This decorative motif was common from c.1850 to 1910 - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in red, blue and green. This decorative motif was common from c. 1850 to 1910, although the color combination and unglazed condition of marble suggest a c. 1850s-1860s date - Click images for larger view. Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with intersecting sets of parallel lines in red, blue and green. This decorative motif was common from c. 1850 to 1910, although the color combination and unglazed condition of marble suggest a c. 1850s-1860s date - Click images for larger view.
Unglazed porcelain marble with painted bull’s
eye motif.  Marbles with this type of bull’s
eye with a repeating leaf pattern around the
circumference have been found in
archaeological contexts dating c. 1850-1860
(Carskadden and Gartley 1990).		 Unglazed porcelain marble decorated
with intersecting sets of parallel lines in
orange and green.This decorative motif was
common from c.1850 to 1910.		 Unglazed porcelain marble decorated with
intersecting sets of parallel lines in red, blue
and green. This decorative motif was common
from c. 1850 to 1910, although the color
combination and unglazed condition of marble
suggest a c. 1850s-1860s date.

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