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A) Ovoid body with high straight sides terminating in slightly scalloped rim; boarshead handles at sides; canted high foot with underglaze blue atlernating single and double cross-hatched border; side panels with Willow pattern landscape of two pagodas, bridge, boats, islands, mountains; B) Very slight domed ovoid cover with knop finial handle; similar decoraton; C) Rectangular shaped tray with rounded corners; deep well with wide rim with Canton 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.),
1977.812ABC
Unknown
2.25 x 4.688 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.812A-C
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