Large circular form with wide rim and slight well; heavy foot ring; underglaze blue Willow pattern decoration with landscape scene of pagoda, islands, bridge, boat and trees; scene enclosed by blue cavetto band with random cross-hatches; rim decorated with blue band with diagonal lines and scalloped late Canton border; crudely potted.
dinner plates
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
PLATE, DINNER
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
1.125 (H), 10.125 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.831.3
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