willowware
IPA: wˈɪɫoʊwɛr
noun
- Articles made from willow.
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Examples of "willowware" in Sentences
- And the tremendous popularity of this legend had the effect of creating a vogue for willowware.
- In short, sales of both Canton china and willowware benefited from what we could call a “China effect.”
- Thomas Turner, working for the Caughley establishment in Shropshire in the 1780s, designed a precursor to willowware.
- Owners of willowware and Canton china, then, apparently took quite seriously these small designs that we now deem unrealistic and purely ornamental.
- Another poem on the subject suggests that many people actually believed that both willowware and the romantic willow legend came from China, not England.
- With respect to willowware in particular, in 1843 a British writer attested to its instructive value: The earliest record that we have of Chinese customs, is to be found in the willow pattern plate.
- In describing the pattern, he noted the trees with leaves “like cherries” and the “three men passing over a triangular bridge,” details that strongly suggest he was looking at Chinese-designed imitations of willowware.
- Still, with its production in England, willowware lacked one critical attribute that had contributed heavily to the success of its Chinese competitor: the mystique and romance that origin in a distant Far Eastern country could lend to an object?
- The garden resembled the “old-fashioned plates of blue Liverpool ware,” Taylor wrote, alluding to one of the many producers of willowware, “with a representation of two Chinese houses, a willow tree, a bridge with three Chinamen walking over it, and two crows in the air.”
- Note 23: Perhaps realizing that Americans preferred to think of the willow legend as of Chinese origin, the Buffalo China Company, the first American pottery company to produce willowware, misinformed potential customers in its 1905 catalog: The legend illustrated by the Blue Willow ware decoration is centuries old.
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