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Description:
English bone china circular teacup (and saucer, HD 81.027A) with a shaped handle, decorated with a blue transfer print in the Willow-Nanking pattern with pagodas, willows, rivers, hills, and bridges, and with gilt decoration around the edge of inner lip and handle and orange haze to translucent body, and thick, indented triangular foot rim. The donor thought that this set is in the same pattern as a large Chinese export porcelain service in the "willow" pattern referred to in Martha Washington's will as "blew and white-china in common use" used at Mount Vernon, However, although the Washingtons used both Chinese export porcelain and transfer-decorated English wares, English porcelain decorated in this pattern is not illustrated or described as being owned by George Washington.

Tags:
pagodas

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