Bowl, 6 x 4 inches. Blue transfer with gilding. Printed makers mark for James Kent. This pattern features a variety of cartouches placed randomly around the body of the bowl. Around the bottom, extending up to the midline of the body is a gilded sheet pattern of small flowers and foliage.

This firm of general domestic potters, Old Foley Pottery, Longton, was founded by James Aloysius Kent (1864-1953) with five workmen from the firm of Barker & Kent (including Arnold Bennett's brother Septimus Bennett, modeler) in 1897. James was joined at the business by his four sons. James Kent became a Limited company in 1913.