The legend of the willow plate
By: by Alvin Tresselt and Nancy Cleaver. With pictures by Joseph Low.
Contributors: Cleaver, Nancy, joint author.; Low, Joseph, 1911- illus.
Publisher: Parents' Magazine Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Folklore
Description: The design of a long popular dinnerware pattern was derived from this old folk tale of two ill-fated Chinese lovers, a poor peasant poet and the daughter of a wealthy mandarin, who fled from the wrath of an angry father and were pitied by the goddess of mercy.