Ring holder, 3.75 x 2.5 inches. Black transfer with polychrome clobbering and gilding. Printed maker's mark for Thomas Till & Sons. This small piece was created as part of a larger toilet set that included a soap dish, toothbrush holder, and ring holder, among other pieces. This sheet pattern consists of a background of dots overlaid with individual stylized flowers and foliage decorated with color and gilding. The border consists of a simple gilded line around the rim of the body and lid.

Of very old foundation, the Sytch Pottery was many years ago worked by Messrs. Keeling. The Sytch Pottery passed successively into the hands of Mr. R. Hall and Messrs. J. Hall & Sons. About 1832 Messrs. Barker, Sutton & Till took to the works, but in subsequent periods Mr. Barker and Mr. Sutton withdrew from the partnership. From 1850 it remained in the hands of Mr. Thomas Till, who was joined in partnership with his sons and the firm became Thomas Till & Sons. Besides earthenware of the usual average quality in which services and innumerable useful articles were made by them, Messrs. Till produced colored bodies of various kinds (cane, sage, drab, and lilac); stoneware of a hard and durable kind for jugs etc.; jet-glazed ware; terra cotta; enameled ware; and various colored lustres. These were principally intended for the home trade. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 the firm received a certificate of merit.