An important Nantgarw square dish from the MacIntosh service

An important Nantgarw square dish from the MacIntosh service, painted with a wading bird standing on mossy rocks between aquatic plants, before a duck in flight, within borders of floral sprays and gilt shell and foliate motifs, c.1818-20, 24.2cm. Cf. W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain, frontispiece for a dish of the same shape from the MacIntosh service. The painting on plates and dishes from this service is now believed to have been executed by Thomas Martin Randall at the establishment of Messrs. Robins & Randall, after engravings from Le Vaillant of Paris (c.1801-06).