A) Circular bulbous form terminating in wide circular mouth and swelling at low foot; underglaze blue decoration in Willow pattern with two landscape scenes with pagoda, bridge, boats, islands and mountains; B) Cover: circular convex form with ball knop; similar central landscape scene with diapered border.
pots (containers)
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
POT
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
2.188 (H), 2.375 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.821AB
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