Description:
English bone china deep saucer (and teacup, HD 81.027) decorated with a dark blue transfer print in the Willow-Nanking pattern with pagodas, willows, rivers, hills, and bridges, and with a gilt rim and triangular foot rim (some age cracks). The saucer does not have the orange haze in the translucent body found on the teacup. 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.
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