Plate, 7.75 inches diameter. Blue transfer. Impressed maker's mark for Davenport. While lacking a pattern name or number, this pattern is identical is style and form to Davenport's "Nile" pattern. This asymmetrical Aesthetic pattern features a bottom grouping of flowers and leaves, including waterlilies, with bamboo shoots growing upward. A songbird with head and wings uplifted perches on one of the bamboo shoots. The upper left features another smaller grouping of flowers laid under an unfurled Japanese hand scroll (emaki) decorated with another songbird perched on a leafy branch.

John Davenport was an apprentice to Thomas Wolfe at Stoke and then worked in partnership with him as a china manufacturer in Liverpool. In 1793 Davenport took over John Brindley's pottery factory at Longport. John Davenport died c. 1830 and the business was continued by his sons Henry and William who extended the works. When Henry died, the business name was changed to W. Davenport & Co. After William died in 1869 the business was continued by his son Henry (grandson of the original founder John Davenport) until its closure in 1887.