Pitcher, 11.75 inches tall. Blue transfer with gilding. Printed maker's mark for Whittaker & Co. The Rd. No. dates the registration of this pattern to 1888. This lovely pattern features a large oval cartouche with a geometric border. The cartouche is filled with a countryside scene consisting of a stone bridge over water in the foreground, a cottage amongst trees in the middle ground, and a country village in the background. The cartouche is framed on the right by a curving spray of daisies. The border along the rim consists of repeated panels of a stylized flower and foliage and geometric medallions. The body of the pitcher is covered with sheet of gilded circles.

Whittaker & Co. was a brief series of partnerships of earthenware manufacturers, operating the Hallfield Pottery, built in 1882, in Hanley, Staffordshire. The original partners were Lewis Whittaker, James Edge, Samuel Heath, John Henry Weatherby, and Robert Rowley. Whittaker, Edge & Co: 1882-1886. Whittaker & Co: 1886-1892. Whittaker, Heath & Co: 1892-1898.