Soap dish, 5.75 x 4.75 inches. Blue transfer. Printed maker's mark for W. T. Copeland & Sons. The impressed registry diamond indicates a manufacture date of 1874. This pattern features a motif of three waterlily blossoms and pads on both short ends of the lid. The body features a continuous branch of feathered leaves around both the rim and the body.

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.