Pitcher, 7.5 inches tall. Brown transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for Holmes, Stonier & Hollinshead. This appropriately named pattern features a flowering branch of the tea plant with a butterfly resting on one of the flowers. A palm fan decorated with songbirds perched on a flowering branch is superimposed over the lower end of the branch. Below the rim is a horizontal spray of chrysanthemums. The opposite side of the pitcher features a spray of bleeding hearts with a rectangular cartouche with curled edge depicting another butterfly superimposed. The handle sports a repeated geometric design of triangles tipped with trefoils and the rim has a simple solid line border.

Holmes, Stonier & Hollinshead was a manufacturer at the Upper Hanley Works on the High Street in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. In 1875, John Hollinshead and John Stonier, at that time of the Ranelagh Works, were joined in partnership by Charles Holmes and removed to the Upper Hanley Works, where they carried on business under the style of Holmes, Stonier & Hollinshead. In 1882 the partners declared bankruptcy.