Linda, I've seen Chinese porcelain plate sherds with similar coloring and design motifs in Spanish colonial deposits at the Presidio of San Francisco (1776-1830s). If you find a good typology or identification guide for these polychrome overglaze porcelains, please do share!
--Barb
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Subject: help with ceramic ID

I've been trying to ID this Chinese (I assume) porcelain ceramic piece.
There isn't anything quite like it online except something on Pinterest.
That online link is: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/492933121686556055/.
The date suggested online is Ming, 16th century, which is way too old for the site I'm working on. The context for my sherd is a Spanish Colonial mission site in California. The site dates from ca. 1784 to the 1830's.

http://s1172.photobucket.com/user/Linda_Hylkema/media/red%20green%20overglaze%20porcelain_zpshnopbimb.jpg.html

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Linda Hylkema, RPA
Director, Cultural Resource Management, Santa Clara University
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