Platter, 13 x 10 inches. Black transfer with polychrome clobbering and lustre overglaze. Impressed maker's mark for W. T. Copeland & Sons. Impressed "84" indicates a manufacture date of 1884. Red painted pattern number "2/2110." This pattern features a wild and sinuous bouquet in the well. The border is wide and consists of several bands. The innermost band contains a series of fans with a half flower interspersed. A geometric chain is found between that and the widest border which contains four varieties of flowers repeated. A rope-like thin band completes the border.

W. T. Copeland was the only son of William Copeland, partner of Josiah Spode in the Stoke Potteries, of Staffordshire and of Portugal Street, London. He succeeded his father as head of the porcelain firm in Portugal Street, London and eventually bought out the interests of the Spode family in the business in the Potteries and London. He ran the business in partnership with Thomas Garrett between 1833 and 1847. After the dissolution of the Copeland and Garrett partnership, it traded as W.T. Copeland and Sons. (1847-1976). In 1866 Copeland was appointed china and glass manufacturer to the Prince of Wales.