willow-pattern n chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river Usage(s) In the river valleys, as if in some tableau from a willow-pattern plate, farmers carry ricks and winnow grain among trees laden with ripe fruit, simple plank . They were to Japan what the willow-pattern Chinaman became to England. Synonym(s) willowware
Quotes willow-pattern Ian Fleming in Times Online A "dainty willow-pattern birdcage", Fleming called it, with "an odd-looking hole-in-the-floor contraption" as a loo.