Deep orange copper color lustre provides the ground for this elaborately molded Victorian bibelot. On one side, a clock face set at 8:20; on the reverse chinoiserie tableaux of a man with parasol addressing a boy with a bird--both printed in puce.

While a Welsh attribution is often given for these products, Michael Gibson and Geoffrey Godden point to Staffordshire examples as well in Collecting Lustreware.They emphasize a greater likelihood for a Staffordshire attribution on unmarked pieces.