A very rare William Reid (Liverpool) blue and white trencher salt c.1756-61

A very rare William Reid (Liverpool) blue and white trencher salt c.1756-61, the waisted oval form gadrooned to the rim and foot, painted with a pagoda landscape to two sides, the interior with a flying insect within a simple loop border, a little chipping, 9.4cm across.

Illustrated: Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.73, pl.3.149.

Exhibited: Northern Ceramic Society, Liverpool, 1993. Phillips, Liverpool Exhibition, 1997.

Paper label for the Davies Collection.