Plate, 8 inches diameter. Brown transfer. Printed and impressed maker's marks for W. T. Copeland & Sons. The impressed F83 indicates a manufacture date of February 1883. The "Cairo" pattern (no. 2/1796) was introduced in 1881. The border, known as "Arabesque," is seen on all the patterns in this series. The central image features two, crisscrossed uchiwa fans with an image of three songbirds in flight on the right and a landscape scene with a large structure at the base of mountains with two palm trees in the foreground. The fans are bordered on the left by blooming irises and above by a small bird 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.