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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 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. The Willow Pattern may refer to: Willow pattern, a distinctive ...
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.
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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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.
As far as I can see, the Swedish version of this article (one of only a handful of versions) gives no indication that the pattern is not originally Chinese, whereas the English one strongly suggests this (and the "blue and white pottery" article states "The willow pattern, said to tell the sad story of a pair of star-crossed lovers, was an ...
Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction.Her novel Blue Willow, about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner.