Plate, 8 inches diameter. Black transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd. This pattern is part of a series featuring children playing games that was produced by both Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd. and Burgess & Leigh. This version features a central cartouche with a young girl in a pinafore and bonnet holding a hoop and stick in an outdoor setting. The cartouche is superimposed over cherry branches and butterflies. The border consists of repeating sections featuring a low, squat vase with orange branches emerging to either side laid over a repeated spiral pattern.

The Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd. was an English pottery established in the Staffordshire town of Hanley in 1805 by Job Meigh (d 1817). It was successively known as Job Meigh (1805–12), Job Meigh & Son (1812–34), Charles Meigh (1834–49), C. Meigh, Son & Pankhurst (1850–51), Charles Meigh & Son (1851–61), Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd (1861–86) and Old Hall Porcelain Works Ltd (1886–1902). In March 1861 Charles Meigh Jr. transferred the business to a limited liability company called the Old Hall Earthenware Co Ltd. This was the first limited liability company in the Staffordshire Potteries. In the 1880s the designers included Christopher Dresser. The pottery closed in 1902 and the Old Hall Works was demolished in 1904.