ABC Plate, 7.25 inches diameter. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for Brownhills Pottery Co. The Rd. No. indicates a pattern registration date of 1887. This pattern is part of a series featuring nursery tales and rhymes. This particular pattern features the traditional English nursery rhyme "Jack & Jill," which originated in the 18th century. The text reads as follows: "Jack and Jill went up the hill / To fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / And Jill came tumbling after."

This pattern features an octagonal cartouche with the pattern name in the border filled with the scene of Jack and Jill tumbling down a hill with a dropped pail between them. This cartouche is bordered on the bottom and right by bunches of hawthorn flowers and to the top and left by the alphabet.

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.