Sugar bowl, 6.5 inches tall. Brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for the New Wharf Pottery Co. The Rd. No. indicates a pattern registration date of 1884. This pattern features a selection of disparate motifs. The largest consists of an arching spray of wheat and a blackberry branch with fruit. Two bees hover at the top left. Superimposed over this foliage is a folded ribbon decorated with geometric patterns and three cartouches. The circular cartouche features a songbird perched in a berry bramble. The rectangular cartouche features a rural thatched cottage and the fan-shaped cartouche is decorated with a stylized-floral pattern. Beneath this large motif is a smaller motif of sailboats on the water connected nominally to a patch of pond with waterlilies and grasses. On the right is another motif consisting of a spray of daisies. The border around the rim and the on the handles consists of a simple, repeated geometric pattern. Two sprays of daisies appear on the lid on either side of the handle.

In 1877 Thomas Wood, along with his brother William, purchased for £5,075 a site in Navigation Road, which they called New Wharf Pottery, and which they had probably been tenants of since 1875. The name New Wharf was derived from the Wharf that was built on the nearby Burslem Branch of the Trent & Mersey canal at that time. In 1894 the works were absorbed into the larger Wood & Son company.