A Derby blue and white plate or stand c.1762

A Derby blue and white plate or stand c.1762, the rim moulded with basketweave and applied with small flowerheads reserving four panels of moths and flying insects, the cavetto with an elaborate shaped border, the well painted with a butterfly in flight above an Oriental landscape, a tiny chip to the rim, 21.7cm.

Cf. H G Bradley, Ceramics of Derbyshire 1750-1975, p.128, no.208.