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Dessert Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-4849

Description

White glazed bodies with blue transfer print design of elaborate Willow pattern; diapered tortoise shell borders broken by scrolled butterfly reserves; deep bowl form.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dessert dishes
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Transfer Printed
Willow
BOWL, DESSERT

Pattern

Willow

Associated Building

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

Maker

Ridgway, W. (Maker)

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

6.5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.864.3

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