Deep cylindrical bowl form with sides tapering to circular foot; small C-scroll handle decorated with blue dots (.8 with blue line); underglaze blue Willow pattern of landscape scene of islands, mountains, pagoda, trees and boats (.8 and .2 with man in house); interior rim with blue band with diagonal lines with band of lines below; interior of bowl with abstract foliate design (.8 with character mark on base).
coffee cups
porcelain
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Canton
Willow
Underglazed
CUP, COFFEE
.8) Character mark on base.
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Canton, China
2.313 (H), 2.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.861.7
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