Plate, 7.75 inches diameter. Red transfer. Printed maker's mark for the Brownhills Pottery Co. The registry diamond dates the pattern registration to 22 August 1883. This pattern is complex in that the plate has been divided into three vertical sections. The largest, on the left, features many cranes in flight above a lake which contains a small sailboat. There is a man on the bank of the lake. A flowering branch extends into the scene, while the bottom of this section has a geometric ribbon defining several cartouches infilled with floral and geometric designs. The smaller center vertical section shows a geometric patterned cartouche at the top, a crane standing in a pond in the middle, and another ribbon dividing the lower portion featuring cartouches. The final section features a bamboo stalk above a smaller cartouche at the bottom.

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.