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Blue and white transfer print pattern "Real Old Willow" with gilt overglaze decoration; borders are alternating diaper reserves with gilt edge; central tranditional pagoda house and river willow pattern scene in Far Eastern manner. .1) Modified bell form with C-shaped handle; flared domed top with pointed gilt finial.
coffeepots
earthenware
gilding
overglazing
transfer printing
Orientalism
willow (wood)
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Willow
Transfer Printed
Overglazed
Gilded
Pagoda
Orientalism
COFFEEPOT
Willow
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Booth's Ltd. (Maker)
Tunstall, England; Tunstall, England, Staffordshire
7.375 x 2.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1049.1
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