Plate, 7.75 inches diameter. Brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for Thomas Elsmore & Son. The registry diamond dates the pattern registration to 14 May 1878. This pattern includes a footed vase decorated with a fancy scroll, an Oriental fan cartouche of floral elements, and a realistic butterfly at the bottom along with some more stylized butterfly designs at the top. Odd branches of stylized flowers and leaves complete the design. In Chinese symbology, the vase is a symbol of perpetual harmony; the scroll on the vase represents truth, happiness and prosperity; the round shape of the fan was a shape popular in the T'ang period (regarded as one of the Golden Ages of Chinese history when the nation enjoyed prolonged unity and prosperity); the flowers that grace the fan are a reflection of the great devotion the Chinese have to flowers as they mark the passing of each season; and the butterfly is a symbol of joy, summer, and conjugal felicity. Only the tiger in the block on the side of the vase stand represents an opposing force - behind its magisterial dignity lies stern ferocity.

T. Elsmore & Son of the Clay Pottery in Tunstall, Staffordshire, England is known to have included England in some of its marks, predating the McKinley Act of 1891.