Aesthetic Bishop & Stonier wonderful plate december 1880

I bought this wonderful plate in the saturday evening fleat market of calle Belgrano in Córdoba, Argentina. It cost me less than one dollar and it was in a sort of great box with the OFERTAS label among every sort of used things. When I saw the registry diamond (last picture) I got surprised for a while, because the pattern is so aesthetic that the period fitted completely. The background is a shiny pale green and the two motifs are impressed in gold, silver and red Iron, a great contrast between then and the pale green. The first drawing a sailing boat in a brave river and the cliff. I am sure that this drawing is the one responsible for the pattern name CONWAY (last picture). “Conway, or more properly Aberconway—so called from its position on the river of that name—makes no inconsiderable figure in the page of ancient history. It appears, on the testimony of Suetonius, the Roman governor in Britain, that the chief motive entertained by his countrymen in their occupation of this coast was a pearl fishery at the mouth of the river Conway; a specimen of which, presented by Sir R. Wynne to the Queen of Charles the Second, is said to have found a place among the jewels that now adorn the British diadem“ (http://www.hellenicaworld.com/UK/Literature/WilliamFinden/en/ThePortsHarbours2.html#Illustration_CONWAY_CASTLE ). The second drawing is a teacup with cherries blossoms a characteristic japonism so in vogue at that time. The marks are those of a Caduceus under relief and the star with the initials of Powell, Bishop & Stonier Stafford Street Works, Hanley (1878-1891). http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sm-info_b-s-partnership.pdf