A) Rectangular globular body with canted corners; white clay body with underglaze blue transfer print design; "Willow" pattern; three pagoda islands with thre men on bridge and two birds on top; quartered diaper pattern around base; diapered rim with Greek key-like elements and scrolled reserves; scroll like handles; rectangular canted foot ring. B) Same "Willow" pattern; rectangular domed lid with molded scroll finial handle.
tureens
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
diaper patterns
diaper (textile material)
key pattern
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Willow
Transfer Printed
Underglazed
Diaper
Greek Key
TUREEN
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
William Ridgway & Co. (Maker)
Shelton and Hanley, England, Staffordshire; Hanley, England, Staffordshire
7.75 x 11 x 7 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.653AB
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