Older transfer scenes often had little to do with their title, so I'm probably being pedantic in pointing out that the Italian city of Ferrara is not a sea port, but is instead on a smallish branch of the River Po.
Wedgwood have produced their Ferrara design in blue since 1832, followed by and brown around 1835.
Most of the blue and brown transfer items have only an impressed WEDGWOOD on the bottom, with no pattern name.
From around 1850 it was time for mulberry and also some interesting lustres, (see the patterns over on the far right.)
From the mid-1870's the pattern name was consistently printed on the back of the plates.
Wedgwood were still making Ferrara into the 1960's.
Ferrara has only the one design, - that border of smaller blooms (their Bluebell border) around the ship with the furled mainmast.
These days, other Wedgwood designs showing sailing ships in a harbour or river, often get erroneously included in the Ferrara series.
Harbour scenes showing ships under sail, with the larger roses (their Blue Rose border, called that even when the transfer-colour is not in blue)), are part of Wedgwood's Landscape series, and are not Ferrara.
The two designs below are examples.
The mark below is for the item above.
The blue plate below is one of the first for this pattern, made in the early 1830's, and marked only with a faintly impressed WEDGWOOD.
The backs of the plates above and below are for the two items to the left.
The mark immediately below is for the lustre pattern immediately above.
