Teapot, 9.5 x 9 inches. Green transfer. Printed maker's mark for Baker & Co. This pattern features three motifs placed around the teapot. There is a sprig of morning glories on both the spout and the lid, and an ivy vine stretched horizontally across the spout right side of the body. On the spout left side of the body there is a sprig of blackberries with a superimposed circular cartouche with the image of a swallow in flight over a field with hills in the background.

Baker & Co. has a history dating back to 1790. By the end of the century Ralph Bourne and William Baker were working together as 'Bourne & Baker.' By the late 1820s, Ralph Bourne and William Baker, in partnership with John Bourne, had acquired an additional works. In 1833, with the deaths of John Bourne and William Baker, the partnership was dissolved, and then for a short time the business was carried on by Ralph Bourne, William Baker the younger, and John Baker. By 1839 William Baker was running the business alone. The business was subsequently carried on as William Baker and Company, makers of printed, sponged, and pearl-white granite ware for export. In the 1851 census William Baker also described himself as "Joint Coal Proprietor" because the partnership rented 18 acres of land on the south side of Fenton House which belonged to Lane End Chapel. Here they opened a colliery called Glebe Colliery which supplied coal to the factory and to other pottery manufacturers in the area. Next to the colliery they opened a brick-works served by an adjacent clay pit. The potworks flourished under William Baker’s management and by the middle of the 19th century, with almost 500 employees, was the biggest firm in Fenton. The firm changed its name from William Baker & Co. (1839-1868) to Baker & Co. in 1869 and was dissolved on 4 October 1893. Baker & Co. consisted of the three partners Joseph Gimson, William Edward Challinor, and Thomas Jones. The company was incorporated as Baker & Co. Ltd. in 1893. The company was incorporated as Baker & Co Ltd in 1893.