Slightly hexagonal form with deep well and flaring rim; underglaze blue Willow pattern with central landscape scene of pagodas, trees, bridge, islands and mountains enclosed by cross-hatched band at cavetto; rim decorated with wide diapered band with scalloped Canton border.
plates (dishes)
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
PLATE
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
1.5 (H), 8.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.835.1
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