I donated a blue-and-white willowware cup that had long ago lost its saucer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

And the tremendous popularity of this legend had the effect of creating a vogue for willowware.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

In short, sales of both Canton china and willowware benefited from what we could call a “China effect.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Thomas Turner, working for the Caughley establishment in Shropshire in the 1780s, designed a precursor to willowware.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Owners of willowware and Canton china, then, apparently took quite seriously these small designs that we now deem unrealistic and purely ornamental.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Ada Walker Camehl, who collected china around the dawn of the twentieth century, found plenty of willowware even out in rural areas of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

With respect to willowware in particular, in 1843 a British writer attested to its instructive value: The earliest record that we have of Chinese customs, is to be found in the willow pattern plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

In describing the pattern, he noted the trees with leaves “like cherries” and the “three men passing over a triangular bridge,” details that strongly suggest he was looking at Chinese-designed imitations of willowware.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Still, with its production in England, willowware lacked one critical attribute that had contributed heavily to the success of its Chinese competitor: the mystique and romance that origin in a distant Far Eastern country could lend to an object?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

While many Americans somewhat naively persisted in associating China with willowware, tea advertisements, and the Arabian Nights, others now held the far more disturbing view that China deserved to be mocked and ridiculed for its perceived backwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

The garden resembled the “old-fashioned plates of blue Liverpool ware,” Taylor wrote, alluding to one of the many producers of willowware, “with a representation of two Chinese houses, a willow tree, a bridge with three Chinamen walking over it, and two crows in the air.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Instead, the paintings, when hung on a wall or viewed in an album, were able to stimulate the interest of the beholder for a reason utterly divorced from their underpinnings in science: For families who already owned willowware or Canton china, they provided a more detailed look at Cathay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Note 23: Perhaps realizing that Americans preferred to think of the willow legend as of Chinese origin, the Buffalo China Company, the first American pottery company to produce willowware, misinformed potential customers in its 1905 catalog: The legend illustrated by the Blue Willow ware decoration is centuries old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Like any retelling of the willow legend, this poem was clearly designed to be repeated in the presence of a piece of willowware, because it points out the various elements in the pattern that correspond to specific moments in the story: “Here is the orange tree where they talked,/Here they are running away,/And over all at the top you see/The birds making love always.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Then the willowware dishes and old Tuttle silver were arranged by Anne, while Polly watched eagerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly of Pebbly Pit] Reference

"Anne," said Marilla, coming out from the parlor, "Miss Stacy wants to see Miss Barry's willowware platter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Avonlea] Reference

We won't use them tonight, nor will we disturb our willowware teapot, its picket fences, bricked pagodas, the repetitious two blue birds stopped short of pecking one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [KLuBBKiDD'S RaVe] Reference

Mm in salt lake city homes for sale, approximately humbly thusly, sd raffishly rarely unconcernedly, in jungermanniales of the sexist proctoplasty an purus amphiumidae, they vinegarweed to vomit that roadhog and willowware fricative dizziness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

15 By the end of the 1780s, numerous porcelain factories were churning out willowware, much of it intended for the American market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

2 Many of the visitors arrived possessing only scant knowledge of China; for them, a simple piece of willowware would have been sufficient to inspire dreams of Cathay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

12 Though his creation resembled the pattern that would eventually conquer the Western world, it could not be strictly classified as authentic willow because it did not possess all of the four elements that would come to define willowware: a willow tree in the central position, three figures crossing a bridge away from the main building, a fence stretching across the foreground, and two birds hovering in the top center (fig. 2.3).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

14 Despite being the first to sell willowware, Spode did not remain the sole producer for long because, shortly after the pattern’s inception, several other porcelain manufacturers obtained copies of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Example of willowware.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference