Ovoid form with deep well and wide rim; white clay, lead body; blue transfer print design; central river scene with far-eastern-style buildings in background and two figures on boat in foreground; floral pattern with birds on rim.
platters
earthenware
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
transfer printing
tin (metal)
boats
floral patterns
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Transfer Printed
Floral
Boat
PLATTER
Printed mark on bottom.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Longport, England, Staffordshire
16.5 (W) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.854
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