Deep circular form curving at bottom with circular foot; underglaze blue decoration; exterior with landscape scene of two pagodas, flock of birds, bridge, and islands; interior rim of blue band with diagonal lines with secondary border of diagonal lines below; abstract sprig inside bowl.
slop bowls
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
BOWL, WASTE
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
2.625 (H), 6 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.836
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