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A) Tureen: hexagonal body with straight sides flaring out slightly from high canted foot; two boar's head handles with abstract characters at ends; underglaze blue Willow decoration of landscape with two pagodas, long bridge, willow, three islands, and mountains; diapered foot band; B) Rectanguloid domed cover with similar landscape deisn and diapered border; C) Stand: hexagonal shallow body with slightly defined well; similar underglaze blue landscape decoration; alternating single and double cross-hatched border.
tureens
bases (object components)
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Canton
Underglazed
Willow
TUREEN
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
1977.811ABC
Unknown
2.5 x 4.313 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.811A-C
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