Soup plate, 9.5 inches diameter. Black transfer. Maker is Florio Palermo. This pattern features an unusual thicket of flowering and leafy palm branches on one side of the plate. Emerging from the thicket is one long palm branch with leaves and blooms on which a bird with outstretched wings is perched. There are three cartouches in the remaining empty space. One is square and filled with two different geometric patterns overlaid with Japanese palm fans decorated with birds and flowers. The second is represented as four rectangular cards connected by a tack and spread out to reveal the images of a geometric pattern, a mountain landscape, a water bird, and decorative foliage. The third is a small circle filled with an image of a bird in flight with stylized foliage.

The "Florio" ceramic factory was founded by the owner Ignazio Florio, in Palermo, in 1882 with the main purpose of producing tableware to be used on the cruise ships of the family fleet. In 1900 the company presented its production at the Palermo Exposition.
Since the beginning of the 1900s the factory has benefited from the collaboration of the great Italian Liberty architect Ernesto Basile. Around the mid-thirties the role of artistic director was entrusted to the Ravenna ceramist Giovanni Morelli. At the end of the 1920s the "Florio" was absorbed by the "Richard-Ginori" but a few years later the factory reappeared under the name "SA Siciliana Ceramica", the brand, not always present, is made up of the graphic symbol of the seahorse.