Cheese keep, 8 x 6.5 inches. Black transfer with polychrome clobbering. Printed maker's mark for the Newport Pottery Co. Ltd. This pattern features motifs on each side of the lid consisting of brightly-decorated Japanese paper lanterns hanging from branches. The rim of both lid and base, as well as the handle, are decorated with green accent line.

The Shorter family owned two pottery works - one in Stoke - Shorter & Son Ltd. and also A. J. Wilkinson in Burslem (The Royal Staffordshire Pottery Works). In 1920 they purchased the Newport Pottery, which was adjacent to the A. J. Wilkinson factory. In 1941 the Shorter family businesses were concentrated with the Royal Staffordshire Pottery Works and the Newport Pottery buildings utilized for war-time purposes. After the war in 1945 the original Newport Pottery Co. Ltd. factory did not reopen and their ware was produced at the other Shorter-owned works. In 1964 the businesses of Newport Pottery Co. Ltd. and A. J. Wilkinson Ltd. were purchased by W. R. Midwinter Ltd.