Blue and white transfer print pattern "Real Old Willow" with gilt overglaze decoration; borders are alternating diaper reserves with gilt edge; central tranditional pagoda house and river willow pattern scene in Far Eastern manner. 6) Bowl with a deep well, canted cavetto and a wide rim.
bowls (vessels)
earthenware
gilding
overglazing
transfer printing
Orientalism
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Willow
Transfer Printed
Overglazed
Gilded
Pagoda
Orientalism
BOWL
Willow
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Booth's Ltd. (Maker)
Tunstall, England; Tunstall, England, Staffordshire
6.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1049.6
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