Bowl, brown transfer. Printed and impressed maker's marks for Edge, Malkin & Co. The Rd. No. indicates a pattern registration date of 1888. This pattern features a bucolic countryside scene with a stone bridge and two standing figures over a small body of water. To the left is a large tree and to the right are two additional figures next to a fence leading to a small house. In the background is a village. The pattern is framed on the bottom by a folded ribbon decorated with floral motifs, cartouches filled with geometric patterns, and hops fruit and leaves.

The partners of Edge, Malkin & Co. were Joseph Edge, William Millett Edge, John Wilcox Edge, and James Malkin. In 1892 John Wilcox Edge retired from the business. In 1893 James Malkin retired and William Spencer Millett Edge joined the business. In 1894 Sydney Malkin left the partnership and the business was continued by the Edge family alone - the name Edge, Malkin & Co. was continued. By 1902 the business was bankrupt and went into voluntary liquidation. S. Webster Dean (who was the chairman of Edge, Malkin & Co.) continued the business until 1910.