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Plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1840

GUSN

GUSN-4692

Description

Circular form with flaring rim and slight well; thick foot ring; underglaze blue Willow pattern with central landscape scene with pagodas, trees, and a bridge; wide blue band on rim with diagonal lines and scalloped late Canton border.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
PLATE

Pattern

Willow

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1.125 (H), 8.625 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.829

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