Coffee pot, white stoneware, smear-glazed, decorated with relief-moulded 'Hizen' pattern, birds perching amongst prunus blossom; base, moulded pattern name, factory mark and registered design mark with encoded date of 26th January 1876, made by Powell a

Coffee pot, white stoneware, smear-glazed, decorated with relief-moulded 'Hizen' pattern, birds perching amongst prunus blossom; base, moulded pattern name, factory mark and registered design mark with encoded date of 26th January 1876, made by Powell and Bishop, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1876+
the pattern name, 'Hizen', is a reference to a province in Kyushu, the most southerly of Japan's main islands