White glazed bodies with blue transfer print design of elaborate Willow pattern; diapered tortoise shell borders broken by scrolled butterfly reserves; deep bowl form.
dessert dishes
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Transfer Printed
Willow
BOWL, DESSERT
Willow
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Ridgway, W. (Maker)
England
6.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.864.3
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