Sugar bowl, 6 x 4.25 x 4.325 inches. Brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for G. W. Turner & Sons. This pattern in the "Phileau" series features different water scenes. On one side a castle ruins on a cliff above the water is depicted. The other side features a view of water with a sailboat seen through a "V" in some craggy cliffs. The side of the sugar bowl are decorated with alternately a sprig of wild roses and a bird flying above cattails growing in water. The lid features two sprigs of the same wild roses on either side of the handle. The border around the top of the bowl depicts two cartouches with a sailboat and songbirds flying above water interspersed with multiple geometric patterns.

From 1861 to 1873 as Turner & Tomkinson when Tomkinson retired and the business was carried on by George Wardle Turner and his sons under the style of G.W. Turner & Sons. From c. 1887 to 1892 they also operated at the Alexandra Pottery, Scotia Road, Tunstall. "The goods produced were ordinary printed and enamelled earthenware in dinner, toilet, and other services for the home and colonial markets." Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900