Pitcher, 6 inches tall. Brown transfer. Printed maker's mark for Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd. This pattern features a wide band around the body of the pitcher consisting of a basket-weave trellis overlaid with branches of blooming prunus. The border under the rim on both the outside and the inside consists of two branches of blooming prunus and the handle features a vertical line of circles bordered by simple lines.

The Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd. as an English pottery established in the Staffordshire town of Hanley in 1805 by Job Meigh (d 1817). It was successively known as Job Meigh (1805–12), Job Meigh & Son (1812–34), Charles Meigh (1834–49), C. Meigh, Son & Pankhurst (1850–51), Charles Meigh & Son (1851–61), Old Hall Earthenware Co. Ltd (1861–86) and Old Hall Porcelain Works Ltd (1886–1902). In March 1861 Charles Meigh Jr. transferred the business to a limited liability company called the Old Hall Earthenware Co Ltd. This was the first limited liability company in the Staffordshire Potteries. In the 1880s the designers included Christopher Dresser. The pottery closed in 1902 and the Old Hall Works was demolished in 1904.