Dinner plate, white earthenware, scalloped rim, printed in black with 'Loochoo' design of bamboo and cranes circling around a floating picture of a desert island; back, printed factory mark, pattern name and registered design mark with encoded date of 2

Dinner plate, white earthenware, scalloped rim, printed in black with 'Loochoo' design of bamboo and cranes circling around a floating picture of a desert island; back, printed factory mark, pattern name and registered design mark with encoded date of 24th March 1877, made by Powell and Bishop, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1877+
Loochoo was the 19th century name for the Ryukyu Islands, which lie south-west of Japan