Plate, 8.25 inches diameter. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for Edward Walley. This pattern features a sheet pattern of stylized leafy branches and scattered florets superimposed over a ground of feather-leaved twigs.
The Villa Pottery belonged at the beginning of the 19th century to Mr. Warburton. From about 1835 to 1850 it was carried on by Jones & Walley, from which time until 1865 Mr. Edward Walley continued it, when it passed into the hands of Wood, Son & Co., afterwards Wood & Dunn, and in 1879 by W. E. Cartlidge, who removed to Cobridge from Bourne’s Bank. Originally white graniteware for the American markets was made; Britannia-metal-mounted goods, ordinary earthenware, jet figures, Rockingham, and majolica were later made.
- Subject Matter: Floral & Botanical
- Collections: Aesthetic Transferware, E. Walley