Plate, 9 inches diameter. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering and gilding. Printed maker's mark for E. J. D. Bodley. The Rd. No. gives a pattern registration date of 1884. True to its name, this pattern features a wide outer band of maidenhair fern encircling an inner geometric band of lines, dots, and stylized fern sprigs. The rim is decorated with a simple gilded line.

In 1880 E. F. Bodley & Co. changed to Edward F. Bodley & Sons, who in 1881 removed to the New Bridge Pottery, Longport. The Hill Pottery China Works in 1867 were carried on by Messrs. Alcock, Diggory & Co. In 1870 the firm was altered into that of Bodley and Diggory, but in the following year Mr. Diggory, having retired, the manufactory was continued by Mr. Edward F. Bodley. In 1874 the style was again changed to Bodley and Son and in 1875 to Edwin J. D. Bodley. The productions formerly embraced china earthenware and Parian but were later entirely confined to china. A specialty of Mr. Bodley's productions was that of pans and vases for chandeliers and lamps. These were made of various forms, and more or less highly decorated; they formed an important branch of manufacture. Services of all the usual kinds, more or less elaborately decorated, were also made. The markets supplied were the home and the South Australian, New Zealand, and Colonial.