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A) Deep rectangular body with lobed corners and straight sides; stepped rim; flat bottom; interior underglaze blue decoration of band of diapering with scalloped lines; central landscape scene with cross-hatch border; willow pattern with Canton border; exterior decorated with blue peonies. B) Rectangular domed cover with molded rise at center topped by peach pit finial; same decoration.
vegetable dishes
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Willow
Canton
Underglazed
DISH, VEGETABLE
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
2.75 x 7.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.808AB
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