Circular, slightly hexagonal form with lobed corners; flaring rim and shallow well; underglaze blue; central landscape scene of pagoda, bridge, islands and trees enclosed by band of arched hatching; rim with wide diaper boarder with scallopes below; willow pattern with Canton border.
dinner plates
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Willow
Canton
PLATE, DINNER
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Canton, China
0.875 (H), 8.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.807.12
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