Plate, 8.5 inches diameter. Blue and brown transfer with polychrome clobbering and gilding. Printed maker's mark for Mintons. Printed retailer's mark for Bailey, Banks & Biddle of Philadelphia.

This pattern features a rectangular cartouche with a vignette of a rustic country house near the banks of a lake or sea, surrounded by trees and hedges. This cartouche is laid over a blue sheet pattern of circular cartouches filled with single flowerheads and small, four-point flowers filling the empty spaces between the cartouches. The border consists of a simple gilded line.

Thomas Minton started the business in 1793 and since then there were many partners and company names. In 1849 Colin Minton Campbell joined Herbert Minton (his uncle and the son of Thomas Minton) and Michael Daintry Hollins and the business traded as Minton & Co. In 1849 Herbert Minton engaged a young French ceramic artist, Léon Arnoux, as art director and he remained with the Minton Company until 1892. This and other enterprising appointments enabled the company to widen its product ranges, one of the first innovations being the very colorful and highly successful majolica ware launched at The Great Exhibition of 1851. Colin Minton Campbell and Michael Daintry Hollins were also in partnership with Robert Minton Taylor as tile manufacturers trading as Minton, Hollins & Co. When Herbert Minton died in 1858 Colin Minton Campbell took over direction of the firm. The partnership with Hollins was dissolved in 1863, Colin Minton Campbell taking the china works and Hollins the tile works. From 1879 the business traded as 'Mintons.'

Bailey, Banks & Biddle started life as Bailey & Kitchen, when Joseph Trowbridge Bailey and Andrew B Kitchen formed a partnership and opened their store at 136 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia in September 1832. They were manufacturing and retail jewelers and silversmiths, but also sold a wide range of luxury goods, such as Sevres porcelain and bronzes, as well as stationery. In 1846 the name was changed to Bailey & Co. and it remained so until 1878 when J. T. Bailey’s son, Joseph Bailey II (who had joined his father’s business in 1851) formed a new partnership with George Banks and Samuel Biddle, thereby creating the name Bailey, Banks & Biddle.