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Example of hand-painted polychrome decorated whiteware exhibiting sprig-like floral motif.  The use of hand-painted polychrome decoration was used predominantly between ca. 1795 - 1840s.(Miller, 1991:8) Since whiteware production began ca. 1820, this sherd may date between ca. 1820 - 1840s.