Irregular kidney-shaped form with shallow basin walls and beaded rim; foot ring; underglazed blue decoration; interior rim decoration with diapered border with bands of diagonal lines and scalloped border (late Canton style); conforming oval central landscape scene with border of alternating single and double cross-hatches.
vegetable dishes
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
DISH, VEGETABLE
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
1.75 x 8.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.819
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