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Butter Pot

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1790-1840

GUSN

GUSN-4678

Description

Small circular form with slight well and small foot rim; underglaze blue decoration; diagonal hatched exterior border; Willow pattern; central landscape scene with pagoda, trees and mountains.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pots (containers)
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
POT

Pattern

Willow

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3.75 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.827.8

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