Earthenware manufacturer at the Upper Hanley Works, the High Street, Hanley,  Stoke-on-Trent, England

• "In 1875, Messrs. Hollinshead & Stonier, at that time of the Ranelagh Works, were joined in partnership by Mr Holmes and removed to this (Upper Hanley Works) in the High Street, where they carried on business under the style of Holmes, Stonier & Hollinshead." Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900

• The partners were Charles Holmes, John Stonier and John Hollinshead.

• By July 1882 the partners were declared bankrupt. Holmes left the business and a Mr. Oliver joined and the business continued as Stonier, Holinshead & Oliver

the pattern is illustrated in the July 1880 advert shown above 
it was produce in single colours such as blue and brown as well as hand coloured polychrome
it is in the aesthetic style 

Holmes, Stonier &
Hollinshead

TEA PLANT' is the pattern name 

this pattern is in the aesthetic style 

H S & H 

'AVONA' is the pattern name 

the registration diamond gives a date of
15th January 1881 for the registration of the pattern

slop bucket in the Shanghai pattern

originally this slop bucket would have had a lid 

'SHANGHAI'' is the pattern name 

the registration diamond shows that the pattern was first registered on the 15th January 1881

NOTE: The Shanghai and Avona patterns were bother registered on the same day