Shallow hexagonal form with broad flat rim; flat base; underglaze blue landscape scene with two pagodas, one figure, bridge, boat, trees, island with house and mountains; cavetto boarder of alternating single and double cross hatches; rim with band of stars, row of diagonal lines and scalloped border; Willow pattern with Canton border.
platters
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Willow
Canton
PLATTER
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
1.125 x 7.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.815
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