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What is the story of "Willow Blue?"

The story on Willow Blue is on Johnson China Pages at   http://silverqueen.com/China_Tableware/johnson.asp

 Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:47 AM
To: pat@silverqueen.com
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To whom it may concern: I am writing to you in search of the story behind the china pattern "blue willow". My mother remembers hearing it as a child , and we have been searching for the story. if you can help, please reply.    thanks.denise

Willow Blue /Blue Willow - Willow Blue recounts an age-old Oriental love story, captured in blue and white. The Blue Willow pattern was introduced over two hundred years ago, first manufactured by Josiah Spode. The pattern features a willow tree, two birds, a fence in the foreground, a tea house, a boat, a bridge with three figures, a border of Oriental symbols. The pattern was cluttered and the elements oddly proportioned yet everyone loved it, and within a few years, more than two hundred English potteries were making variations of Blue Willow. The Blue Willow Scene captures a Chinese maiden and her young suitor eloping, and are pursued across a bridge by her irate father. The lovers die tragically but their spirits flutter together forever in the form of two immortal doves. 

Thanks, Pat 

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