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Soup Plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1820

GUSN

GUSN-4708

Description

Circular slightly hexagonal form with deep well and broad flat rim; small foot ring; underglaze blue Willow pattern with central circle with landscape with pagodas, trees, bridge, islands and mountains; alternating curved hatching cavetto border band; rim decorated with wide diapered band.

Details

Descriptive Terms

soup plates
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
PLATE, SOUP

Pattern

Willow

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1.5 (H), 8.875 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.834.2

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