Circular form with shallow well; white clay body with underglaze blue transfer print design; "Willow" pattern; three pagoda islands with one man on bridge an two birds at top; diapered rim with Greek key-like elements and scrolled reserves; quartered diaper pattern cavetto border; foot ring.
butter chips
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
key pattern
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Willow
Greek Key
Transfer Printed
Underglazed
Diaper
PLATE, BUTTER
Marked on bottom.
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
William Ridgway & Co. (Maker)
Shelton and Hanley, England, Staffordshire; Hanley, England, Staffordshire
3.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.644.6
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