Platter, 13.5 x 10.875 inches. Black transfer with blue clobbered rim. Printed maker's mark for the New Wharf Pottery Co. This simple pattern features a blooming branch of cotton along one edge of the platter and a stalk of bamboo along the other, mirroring each other.

In 1877 Thomas Wood, along with his brother William, purchased for £5075 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.