Description:
English pearlware round plate with lobed edge, decorated with a transfer print in blue with a watery Chinese landscape scene in the center of well. The scene depicts two figures on a bridge with a large pagoda on the right; the curvature has a printed border of diamond diapering; and the rim is printed with a Fitzhugh-type border with butterflies, diamond diapering, and Greek key motifs. Robert Copeland refers to this pattern as the Buddleia, not the Willow pattern. This is a pattern for which there is no known Chinese prototype. The pattern of this plate varies from the Spode version in that the tortured shape of the tree stem and slightly curving shape to the flowers is distinctive. and there are no pendants to the roofs of the pagoda on the distinct island at top left. No attribution to a specific factory can be made.
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