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1800-1833
GUSN-12443
.153) Cover from sauce tureen. Rectanguloid and slightly domed form with shaped corners. Eagle head or arched feather finial. Set) White clay body with bluish-cast white glaze; Canton pattern underglaze blue painted decoration consisting of cross hatched, striped, star and scalloped border bands; central or overall design of "willow" pattern consisting of pagoda house at proper right with trees extending to center, bridge in foreground, islands at left and/or rear and small boats; some with pine trees and birds at top half.
covers (closures)
porcelain
boats
cross-hatching
floral patterns
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Willow
Sprig
Pagoda
Boat
Cross Hatch
COVER
Willow
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
China
Gift of Ralph May
1971.977.153
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