Plate, 12.5 inches diameter. Blue transfer. Printed maker's mark for the British Anchor Pottery Co. Ltd. The Rd. No. indicates a pattern registration date of 1885. This complex design features a large triangular cartouche with two scrolled edges is centered in the plate. It contains two birds sitting on a branch of a tree and is surrounded by many layers of blossoming branches and two triangular cartouches infilled with bamboo. There is a double border of blossoming branches.

J. T. Hudden established a factory at the British Anchor Works in Anchor Road, c.1874-1884. He was recorded as an 'important manufacturer.' In 1881 Hudden was 65 years old and his works employed 100 people. Hudden was made bankrupt in 1883 and around 1884 the works were taken over and became "British Anchor Pottery Co. Ltd."