Topical Guide 842
Mark Dorset
Setting: Romantic, Willow-Pattern-Like
At Home with the Glynns, Chapter 27:
The park we had come to, if park it was, looked nothing like that. It looked like a willowware plate. It had a stream, a tiny pond, a bridge, and willows, and the rest of it was wild.
Wikipedia, “Willow Pattern”:
The Willow pattern is a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic tableware. It became popular at the end of the 18th century in England when, in its standard form, it was developed by English ceramic artists combining and adapting motifs inspired by fashionable hand-painted blue-and-white wares imported from Qing dynasty China. […]
The Willow pattern is commonly presented in a circular or ovate frame. The waterside landscape represents a garden in the lower right side […]. A path through the garden leads to the front of the scene and is crossed by a fence of diapered panels set zig-zag fashion across the foreground.
On its left side the garden forms an irregular and indented bank into the water, from the foreground of which a large branching willow tree with four clusters of three leafy fronds leans out. From this point a bridge, usually of three arches, crosses left to an island or bank with a house having a tall arched doorway, and a small tree behind. There are usually three figures on the bridge going away from the garden.
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Setting: Dark, Secluded, Dangerous TG 555
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