Animal Effigy

Fish shaped. Painted with spotted stripes. Red-white-black. Top Broken

Unknown vessel type with an effigy-zoomorphic body, no neck/collar, missing rim, unknown (missing?) handles on the vessel, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. shaped like a fish. The vessel is shaped like a fish with open mouth, eyes, gills, and tail. The vessel is red/orange slipped and painted white and black in the pattern of the fish. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the base and body. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink on the bottom of the base. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1811."