Plate, 6.5 inches diameter. Brown transfer. Impressed maker's mark for W. T. Copeland & Sons. The impressed 'A82' indicates a manufacture date of April 1882. The border, known as "Arabesque," is seen on all the patterns in this series. This pattern features a circular cartouche with an image of a cluster of buildings with tiled roofs and a minaret in the countryside. In the right foreground is a stand of palm trees. This cartouche is superimposed over another, smaller circular cartouche divided into bands of alternating meanders and crosses, sprigs of flowers, and a songbird in flight.

W. T. Copeland was the only son of William Copeland, partner of Josiah Spode in the Stoke Potteries, of Staffordshire and of Portugal Street, London. He succeeded his father as head of the porcelain firm in Portugal Street, London and eventually bought out the interests of the Spode family in the business in the Potteries and London. He ran the business in partnership with Thomas Garrett between 1833 and 1847. After the dissolution of the Copeland and Garrett partnership, it traded as W.T. Copeland and Sons. (1847-1976). In 1866 Copeland was appointed china and glass manufacturer to the Prince of Wales.