Platter, 18.5 x 15 inches . Printed maker's mark for Thomas Till & Sons. This pattern has been documented with the registry diamond for 28 February 1883. This pattern features a rural scene featuring geese about to land on a marshland pond complete with cattails. Three round cartouches on the lower left contain fish, stylized flowers, and geometric forms. The cartouches rest on a patchwork collection of geometric mats. A large flowering branch hangs over the scene.

Of very old foundation, the Sytch Pottery was many years ago worked by Messrs. Keeling. The Sytch Pottery passed successively into the hands of Mr. R. Hall and Messrs. J. Hall & Sons. About 1832 Messrs. Barker, Sutton & Till took to the works, but at subsequent periods Mr. Barker and Mr. Sutton withdrew from the partnership. From 1850 it remained in the hands of Mr. Thomas Till, who was joined in partnership with his sons and the firm became Thomas Till & Sons. Besides earthenware of the usual average quality in which services and innumerable useful articles were made by them, Messrs. Till produced colored bodies of various kinds (cane, sage, drab, and lilac); stoneware of a hard and durable kind for jugs etc.; jet-glazed ware; terra cotta; enameled ware; and various colored lustres. These were principally intended for the home trade. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 the firm received a certificate of merit.