Plate, 7.25 inches diameter. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering. Maker is the Brownhills Pottery Co. The registry diamond dates the pattern registration to 14 December 1883. The "Greek" pattern is part of the series of 24 patterns, "Nations of the World," which shows people dressed in the native garb of various regions of the world. The source print for this series is from "The Picture Alphabet of the Nations of the World" originally published in Edinburgh, by T. Nelson & Sons, 1874. The inscription for the Greek entry says "A handsome people are the Greeks,/Who own a classic land,/But restless, wayward, and disposed/To spurn a ruler's hand." All patterns in this series have a printed alphabet border that partially surrounds the pattern.

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.