Plate, 5.75 x 5.75 inches. Brown transfer with gilding. Maker is the Trenton Empire Pottery. This pattern features a sheet of branches with ovate leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers. A pair of songbirds is perched on one of the branches on the left. On the right the branches and a narrow scroll decorated with single, repeated stylized flower create a window looking onto a vignette. This vignette consists of a country landscape with a cottage in the background and a covey of partridges, including chicks, in the foreground.

Coxon & Thompson Pottery (Trenton Potteries Co.), Trenton, New Jersey – In 1863, Charles Coxon, one of the important designers and modelers of the 19th century, opened his own pottery in partnership with John F. Thompson. Coxon died in 1868. The family continued to operate the pottery until it was acquired by Alpaugh & McGowan in 1883. The pottery continued as the Empire Pottery. In 1892, it joined with five other potteries (Crescent, Delaware, Empire, Ideal, and Equitable) to create the Trenton Potteries Company conglomerate. The combined companies concentrated on sanitary ware but also marketed a line of decorative vases and figures.