Plate, 9.5 inches diameter. Blue transfer. This Romantic floral pattern made by Pinder, Bourne & Co. has two marks. The oval impressed mark has both the company name and location of Burslem. Also included in this mark are the numerals 1-82, which dates this pattern to January 1882. When the company and works were sold to Doulton in 1878, the Pinder, Bourne & Co. name was used until early 1882. The other mark is a printed crown mark showing the P.B. & Co. initials used by this maker and the pattern name. In the center scene, oversized flowers are arranged in an unseen container on a ledge, cascading over the edge. A classical urn with handles on a pedestal is found to the left with trailing blooms and greenery. A fountain can be seen in the background through an arched entryway. The border consists of an outer row of fish roe and another of interlocking rings with crosses in the center. The wider center row contains stylized floral medallions and floral panels. The inner row is a narrow line of egg and dart. Doulton & Co. continued this pattern.

The partners were Thomas Shadford Pinder and Joseph Harvey Bourne. Thomas Pinder had previously operated from the Swan Bank Works from 1848 and the Fountain Place Works from c. 1852. In 1851 he was joined by two partners and they operated as Pinder, Bourne and Hope (Thomas Pinder, Joseph Harvey Bourne, and John Hope). In 1860 they moved to the already existing Nile Street Works. In 1862 Mr. Hope left the partnership and stayed at the Fountain Place Works - the Nile street works continued as Pinder, Bourne & Co. At some time, Joseph Bourne left the business. The '& Co.' were John Harris and Ernest Joban Berg. In 1877 notice for liquidation by arrangement was made by Thomas Shadford Pinder, John Harris, and Ernest Joban Berg, co-partners of Pinder, Bourne & Co. In 1877 Henry Doulton, of the Lambeth (London) pottery company Doulton & Co., was approached by Pinder, proposing he become a partner in the firm of Pinder, Bourne and Co. for an outlay of £12,000, but the money was unwisely spent and differences of opinion caused such a rift between the two concerns that only arbitration could resolve the matter. Pinder retired and Henry Doulton continued with the business. The name of Pinder, Bourne & Co. continued to be used until 1882 when it became Doulton & Co. Ltd.