willow-pattern

Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow-pattern.

The Book of Snobs 2006

Some of them (a strange thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and tables bright with scrubbing or pipe-clay, and the very kettle polished like silver.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

The tea - pot, the old stocking-foot, the linen rag, the willow-pattern tureen, will yield up their barren deposit in many a house: suffer your daughters, at least, to put their money to the exchangers, that they may be enabled at the Master's coming to pay

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

The willow-pattern plate was daubed with gory streaks.

The Years 2004

It glinted on the blue slate slabs of the floor, on the willow-pattern china set out on the enormous black dresser; on the shelf of beaming Toby jugs above the stove.

The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

It glinted on the blue slate slabs of the floor, on the willow-pattern china set out on the enormous black dresser; on the shelf of beaming Toby jugs above the stove.

The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

Flemish po -- portrait painting, with its very high finish and intense concentration of craft, and it is said his mother's willow-pattern china.

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America 1997

“This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

“This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

“This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994