Large circular form with sides curving to high foot; large foliate scenes with red and pink peonies, orange and pink blossoms and bush with mushroom shapes growing from behind; fence on both sides with blue flower and green foliage; interior base with large peony in red and white with blue blossom and green foliage; red diapered border around inside rim with four reserves of red flowers with green and blue borders.
bowls (vessels)
porcelain
Knickknack
Bowl, Decorative
Bowl, Decorative
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
China
4 1/2 x 10 3/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.414
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