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This story is represented in the children's book The Willow Pattern Story, by Allan Drummond. [ 9 ] Blue Willow by Doris Gates (1940) [ 10 ] is a children's novel, a realist fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression years that has been called " The Grapes of Wrath for children". [ 11 ]
The Legend of the Willow Pattern was invented by the English over 200 years ago to promote pottery sales of a china willow pattern based on an older china pattern. The story runs as follows (with the frequent references to the figures in the plate design omitted): Once there was a wealthy mandarin, who had a beautiful daughter.
The Willow Pattern may refer to: Willow pattern, a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic tableware; The Willow Pattern (opera), a comic opera by Basil Hood and Cecil Cook; The Willow Pattern (novel), a 1965 detective novel by Robert van Gulik
The Willow Pattern is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty).It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
A 20th century version of The Willow Pattern, a typical Staffordshire Potteries product in blue and white transfer printed earthenware. Thomas Minton (1765–1836) was an English potter. He founded Thomas Minton & Sons in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which grew into a major ceramic manufacturing company with an international reputation.
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