Bulbous half-round, late ginger jar form terminating in flat circular base; course white/grey clay body; underglaze cobalt blue enamel docoration in stylized landscape (very minimal willow-type pattern); fitted to electricity; permanently attached to circular carved teakwood stand (Japanese).
lamps (lighting devices)
porcelain
enameling
teak (wood)
underglazing
willow (wood)
Lamp
Lamp
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Asia; Korea; Japan
18 x 6 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.623
Possibly
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