Plate, 8.25 inches diameter. Brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for the Brownhills Pottery Co. The impressed numbers indicate a manufacture date of 1887. This pattern features three botanical motifs spread around the well, interspersed with two half-circles filled with stylized flower and geometric patterns. The three motifs include a branch of hemlock with cones, a sprig of holly, and a sprig of blackberries. The border consists of alternating trios of stylized leaves and berries.

The Brownhills Works (formerly Marsh and Haywoods) were for many years carried on by Mr. George F. Bowers, who attained a fair reputation for china goods, and gained a medal at the Exhibition of 1851. Subsequently he commenced the manufacture of earthenware, which he continued until his death, when he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Frederick F. Bowers. On his failure in 1871 the manufactory was purchased by Mr. James Eardley of Alsager, and was then carried on by his son and sons-in-law, Messrs. Alfred J. Eardley, Edwin Meir, William H. Bratt, Robert H. Parker, and George Hammersley, under the style of “The Brownhills Pottery Co.” The goods produced by the Company were of the usual useful classes of table, tea, toilet, and other requisites, in fine earthenware, stoneware, buff, turquoise, and cream-colored ware; and in decorations of the fine earthenware services improvements were achieved by which the printing of enamel upon the glaze, and lining on the bisque, were effected. In stoneware, some excellent designs in teapots, jugs, etc. were produced, as are also jugs and other useful articles in creamware; the adaptations of Japanese ornamentation in the former were highly successful.