Plate, brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for Whittaker & Co. The Rd. number dates the registration of this pattern to 1889, but the inclusion of England means this particular piece was produced after 1891. This asymmetrical pattern features a large curving spray of wildflowers and foliage on the left and a smaller curving spray to the right.

Whittaker & Co. was a brief series of partnerships of earthenware manufacturers, operating the Hallfield Pottery, built in 1882) in Hanley, Staffordshire. The original partners were Lewis Whittaker, James Edge, Samuel Heath, John Henry Weatherby, and Robert Rowley. Whittaker, Edge & Co.: 1882-1886. Whittaker & Co.: 1886-1892. Whittaker, Heath & Co.: 1892-1898.