According to the entry in The Collins Encyclopedia of Antiques, the first willow pattern was a "pseudo-Chinese design" applied to plates by transfer printing in the 1870s. The pictures on the ware, and the legend attached to them, were "of English origin" through and through.
根據科林氏《古董百科全書》的詮釋，柳葉盤項下開宗明義即是「一七八○年代仿中國設計的轉印瓷盤」，而盤中圖案與傳說，都是如假包換的「英製」名品。