"Blue Willow" © Sally Shisler, 2010
(4x4")-201088; Blog/Newsletter Subscriber's Price $75
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I never knew the story behind the scene on this popular antique Blue Willow transferware plate. I'm glad I did the research because it gives the painting meaning beyond the plate's luscious beauty. There is more than one variation, but each tale tends to flow along the same lines. As the tale goes, long ago, a Chinese Mandarin lived in a wonderful pagoda under an apple tree on the right side of a bridge. He was the father of a beautiful girl, who was the promised bride of an old but wealthy merchant. The girl, however, fell in love with her father’s clerk. The lovers eloped across the sea to the cottage on the island. Her father pursued and caught the lovers and was about to have them killed when the gods transformed them into a pair of turtle doves. Of course, there is no factual basis to the story, but dang - isn't it romantic?
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