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Vegetable Dish

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1790-1830

GUSN

GUSN-4727

Description

Shallow oval form with narrow rim; underglaze blue Willow pattern of central oval landscape with two pavilions, three arched bridges and islands; enclosed by diapered border; inside rim decorated with diapered border of diagonal lines and scalloped below; edge with blue band of faint cross-hatching.

Details

Descriptive Terms

vegetable dishes
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Underglazed
Canton
Willow
DISH, VEGETABLE

Pattern

Willow

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1.875 x 9.125 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.841

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