Plate, brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for Stonier, Hollinshead & Oliver, Hanley, Staffordshire, and the pattern name "Coburg." The pattern is cut into three large cartouches separated by narrow borders filled with zig-zag lines. The two outside cartouches are full of flowers and leaves while the center scene can vary on different pieces in the dinner service. This plate has a body of water in the center scene with a setting sun on the horizon and a clump of cattails and a sprig of clematis in the top and bottom foreground. Search "Coburg" in the database to see other variations of this pattern.

Upper Hanley Works, High Street. In 1875 Messrs. Hollinshead & Stonier, at that time of the Ranelagh Works, were joined in partnership by Mr. Holmes and removed to this manufactory where they carried on the business under the style of Holmes, Stonier and Hollinshead until 1882. Then it was changed to Stonier, Hollinshead and Oliver. Their productions are the more useful classes of earthenware and white granite for the home, American, Cape, and Australian markets.