Time is running out to enter my $100 gift certificate GIVEAWAY HERE . Ends 4/11 The first transferware designs of the late 18th and very early 19th centuries were copied from hand painted blue and white Chinese export porcelains depicting scenes and motifs of an Oriental nature, such as the Blue Willow pattern . Transferware designs were later copied from manuscripts and prints. Early Staffordshire Blue Willow Platter Around 1820, as tastes changed, the subject matter on transfer ware was anglicized and began showing bucolic and pastoral English scenes of country life. Cattle and sheep were popular themes as were castles and Abbey ruins. Some depicted women in period clothing with parasols and suitors at their side in gardens or gazebos. This is often referred to as Romantic style transferware. circa 1825-30 Romantic Platter entitled Scroll Spode Ruins British Views & Historical scenes soon followed Circa 182 Hicks & Meigh drainer Pattern, British