Child's tea set plate, 5.375 inches diameter. Brown transfer. Maker is Charles Allerton & Sons. Name marks were not used by Allerton until the mid 1880s, and this pattern dates to c. 1886. The pattern features a waterhen (common moorhen) feeding in a marshland framed by wildflowers and grasses, including primrose. A borderless oval cartouche above this scene features a river or lake with a bridge, and a castle in the distance. Two small birds fly to the upper left.

The Park Works was established in 1831. Charles Allerton died around June 1863, but his four sons: William Allerton, John Bill Allerton, Charles Bradbury Allerton, and Frederick James Allerton, continued the company under the original name, although before August 1887, only William & Charles Bradbury Allerton remained. Charles Bradbury retired in August 1887. Taken over in 1912 by Cauldon Potteries Ltd., from which date they operated under the name of Allerton's Ltd.