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willow pattern
noun
- a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
willow pattern
noun
- a pattern incorporating a willow tree, river, bridge, and figures, typically in blue on a white ground, used on pottery and porcelain
- ( as modifier )
a willow-pattern plate
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Origin of willow pattern1
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Example Sentences
There was a lot of room at the oval table; the china of dark blue willow-pattern looked pretty on the glossy cloth.
In 1780 he produced the celebrated “willow pattern,” and completed the first blue printed table service made in England.
In fact, it was almost as much copied in stoneware as the "willow pattern" was in blue-printed ware.
Josiah Spode, about 1784, introduced his under-glaze blue "willow pattern," a copy of the Caughley pattern.
The willow pattern, among others, was a favourite design, and most of these printed blue plates are marked.
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