Circular form with shallow well; white glazed body with blue transfer print; "Willow" pattern; three pagodas with three men on bridge and two birds at top; quartered diaper pattern cavetto border; diaper rim with Greek key-like elements with scrolled reserves, tortoise shell border; foot ring.
plates (dishes)
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
earthenware
vitrification
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
key pattern
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Willow
Pagoda
Greek Key
Diaper
PLATE
Marked: ""Engraved/for/W. Ridgway & Co.,/ 1832 impressed 10/ 25""
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
William Ridgway & Co. (Maker)
Shelton and Hanley, England, Staffordshire; Hanley, England, Staffordshire
7.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.643.2
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