A Liverpool (William Reid) dessert dish, circa 1756-61 Of fluted shape, with a scalloped rim, painted in blue with the 'Four Hole Rock' pattern, a large winged insect above willow and peony, 19.5cm diam Footnotes: Provenance Lyn and Maurice Hillis Collection Exhibited in the Northern Ceramic Circle Exhibition, Liverpool, 1993, no.56 as Gilbody. The pattern does occur on Gilbody porcelain but Brownlow Hill excavations produced shards matching both the shape and decoration on the present lot, allowing its reattribution. See Maurice Hillis and Roderick Jellicoe, The Liverpool Porcelain of William Reid (2000), exhibition catalogue no.33 and pl.M1. The dish is also illustrated by Hillis (2011), p.77, fig.3.158 (right) where it is noted that this shape was probably taken from Chelsea. The shape also occurs in silver and is sometimes referred to as a strawberry dish. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing