Plate, 9.25 inches diameter. Impressed maker's mark for W. T. Copeland & Sons. The diamond registry dates the registration of this pattern to 24 January 1877, when William Brownfield & Sons registered their Puck Dessert Service series. Steven Smith in "Spode & Copeland. Over 200 Years of Fine China and Porcelain," 2005, shows an example of Copeland's treatment of this pattern and states it was produced c. 1902. In English Folklore, Puck is a mythological fairy or sprite of mischievous nature. Puck is also a generalized personification of land spirits. In this pattern, a fairy or sprite in a flower hat appears to be rolling an apple with his feet while another sprite leans his back against it to help push. Presumably the apple is the dessert they are bringing home to share with the other sprites.

W. T. Copeland was the only son of William Copeland, partner of Josiah Spode in the Stoke Potteries, of Staffordshire and of Portugal Street, London. He succeeded his father as head of the porcelain firm in Portugal Street, London and eventually bought out the interests of the Spode family in the business in the Potteries and London. He ran the business in partnership with Thomas Garrett between 1833 and 1847. After the dissolution of the Copeland and Garrett partnership, it traded as W. T. Copeland and Sons. (1847-1976). In 1866 Copeland was appointed china and glass manufacturer to the Prince of Wales.