mocha ware

noun also mocha

Usage: usually capitalized M

: a coarse English earthenware with soft buff body decorated with colored bands and brush patterns (as of seaweed, earthworms, and tree silhouettes) and made especially in Staffordshire from the late 18th to the early 20th century

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a pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.

[1830-40]

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Mocha ware,

a white pottery formerly produced in England for household use, decorated with dendritic or treelike designs on a tinted ground.