Blooming vines set within two carefully worked pattern bands wind about the flange of this soup with prominent blossoms in pink, blue, buttercup and coral. A central circular Japanesque Mon is complemented by additional blooms.

Doulton's Oxford--at this point still fresh and charming--points to the trend of increasingly sentimental English floral patterns which would dominate mid-price and dime store china offerings well beyond the middle of the 20th Century.