A rare Plymouth dish or centrepiece, c.1768-70, the oval form with deep fluted sides and four

A rare Plymouth dish or centrepiece, c.1768-70, the oval form with deep fluted sides and four moulded shell handles within a feathered rim, painted with colourful moths around a central flower spray, broken and cleanly repaired, 31.5cm.

Provenance: Rod Jellicoe. Formerly in the collections of F S Mackenna and Peter Stephens.

Exhibited: English Ceramics Circle, 1948; Albert Amor Ltd, 1978.

Illustrated: F. Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain.