Mush cup saucer, 8.25 inches diameter. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for J. F. Wileman. This pattern features four motifs placed evenly around the saucer. On the left is a sprig of daisies and on the right is a sprig of morning glories. At the bottom are two overlapping cartouches laid over daisies and wheat with two rabbits to the left. The upper octagonal cartouche features a vignette of a farmer reaping wheat with a sickle. The bottom rectangular cartouche features a small game bird in the brush. At the top of the saucer are another two overlapping cartouches laid over holly and ivy with two game birds to the right. The upper irregular cartouche features a vignette of a farm with the farmer and his dog crossing the snowy landscape with a staff. The bottom circular cartouche features a stag in the wild.

The Foley Potteries took their name from the Foley family who owned property in the neighborhood. They were built by John Smith of Fenton Hall about 1820. The first firm by whom they were worked was Elkin, Knight & Bridgwood. On the retirement of the latter, the style was changed to Knight & Elkin and subsequently (on the retirement of Mr. Elkin) to J. K. Knight alone, until 1853, when he was joined in partnership by the late Henry Wileman, wholesale china dealer, of London, the style being Knight and Wileman. On the retirement of Mr. Knight until his death in 1856, Mr. Wileman carried on the works alone until 1864, when his two sons succeeded him as J. & C. Wileman. In 1866 the partnership was dissolved, and from that time the business belonged to James F. Wileman. The goods produced were the usual granite ware, printed wares, lustres, Egyptian and shining black, and cream-colored wares. All of these were of the ordinary classes for household use and the great bulk of the trade was exported to the States, Panama, Australia, South Africa, Ceylon, Java, and India. The firm of Wileman & Co. was in business at the Foley Pottery, Fenton, Staffordshire from c. 1892 to 1925, when they were renamed Shelley.