Vase, 4.5 inches tall. Black transfer with gilding. Maker is Jacob Furnival & Co. This vase features different images on two sides of the body. The larger image consists of two overlapping cartouches superimposed over a flowering branch. The diamond cartouche contains an image of a three-masted schooner at sea surrounded by a geometric border. The circular cartouche features an image of a bird in flight chasing an insect, also surrounded by a geometric border. The opposite side of the vase features a circular cartouche filled with a bird in flight surrounded by a geometric border and superimposed over a large leaf and a stem of round berries. The border consists of a simple gilded line around the rim and foot.

The firm of ​Jacob Furnival & Co. opened at the Elder Road Pottery Works around 1845. During its lifetime, the company was involved in export to America through the following agencies: Baldwin, Pond & Co., Woonsocket; J.C. Huntington & Co., Cincinnati; and Huntington & Brooks, Cincinnati. The company was initially a partnership between Jacob Furnival, G. Oxley, S.B. Taylor, and S.C. Pears, however, ​this partnership was dissolved on 13th December 1852.
The question thus arises as to who formed the "& Co." part of the company title, after the previous partnership had dissolved? It seems likely that one partner would have been Jacob's brother, Thomas. He may, at least for a while, have been joined by John Derbyshire and Francis Joseph Emery (later of Bleak Hill Works), as a patent for "Improvements in apparatus for supporting articles of china and earthenware in kilns and ovens" was granted to Jacob, Thomas, John and Francis on 3rd January 1859. However, this four-way partnership (if, indeed, this is correct) appears to have been reduced to Jacob and Thomas at some point. Jacob seems to have ceased trading around 1870. The last design was registered by the company in 1868.