The transferware pattern is based on the original sketch by Charles Ramus Forrest titled Village and Pagoda below Patna Azimabad, on the Ganges. The drawing appeared as an aquatint in Forrest's "A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India" published in 1824. To add to its aesthetic quality, while transferring the design on this Blue and White Platter, the potters added numerous sail boats with people in the foreground from imagination or from other prints. The pattern in the border could be a section from another engraving as well. As the mid 1820s approached, the work of the Daniells had been extensively utilised and so the English transferware pottery manufacturers turned to other contemporary publications such as those by Forrest or Robert Elliot for inspiration, 

The domed structure by the river in the center of the Platter is based on the original sketch by Commander Robert Elliott titled Tomb of Shere Shah (at Sasaram). The drawing appeared as a steel engraving in Elliot's 'Views in India, China, and the Shores of the Red Sea" published in 1833. To add to its aesthetic quality, while transferring the design on this Blue and White Platter, the potters added trees, a sail boat and human figures in the foreground from imagination or from other prints. The pattern in the border could be a section from another engraving as well.