Hexagonal form with shallow well and broad flat rim; underglaze blue Willow pattern decoration of central landscape; scene surrounded by cross-hatched cavetto border; rim decoration with wide blue band with cross-hatched stars with scalloped line 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
1.375 x 11.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.817
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